RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS OF SECRETARIAL TEACHERS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND THEIR ABILITY TO UTILIZE THE INTERNET FOR EFFECTIVE LECTURE DELIVERY
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS OF SECRETARIAL TEACHERS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION AND THEIR ABILITY TO UTILIZE THE INTERNET FOR EFFECTIVE LECTURE DELIVERY
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2011-09
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ADESHINA, TUNDE JOEL
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Abstract
This study was to establish the relationship between Information Technology (IT) skills of
Secretarial Teachers in Nigerian Colleges of Education and their ability to utilize the Internet
for Effective Lecture Delivery. Many secretarial teachers possess some degree of IT skills
but these skills were not utilized to access information from the Internet, thereby not making
them to be current and innovative within the mainstream of classroom teaching and learning.
The major objective of the study is to discover how to fill the gap that existed between
Information Technology Skills possessed by Secretarial Teachers in Nigerian Colleges of
Education and the actual usage of the skills to access Internet for information that will assist
them in effective Classroom Delivery. Four Research Questions and four Null Hypotheses
were generated for this research study. The research design employed for this research study
was the descriptive survey research. The Population for the study was 250 Secretarial
Teachers drawn from 58 Accredited Nigerian Colleges of Education. No sampling was done
because of the small size of the target population. However, out of the 250 Secretarial
Teachers, only 225 Secretarial Teachers responded to the questionnaire that was divided into
4 parts. The questionnaire was used to obtained information on the respondents’ Bio-data
and computer use background, Teacher Information Technology Skill Acquisition
Competence (TITSC), Teacher Information Technology Skills Usage (TITSU), Teacher
Information Technology Internet Knowledge (TITIK), and The extent of usage of Internet
information to teach the Secretarial courses. Data were analyzed using mean and standard
deviation for answering the five research questions, while t-test was used to test for
differences, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test for
relationships of the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study
shows lack of basic learning experiences needed to adequately equip the teachers with ability
to download and upload quality information and teach students how to do that. Owing to the
lack of these IT skills therefore, the teachers were not capable in accessing Internet by using
some Information Technology facilities to get vital information for effective classroom
delivery. Though there was a significant relationship between Information Technology skills
acquisition and classroom delivery. As weak as the relationship was that was discovered in
the study, it was only effective on Office Practice, a course out of other courses offered in the
Secretarial programme. The study concluded that, anyone that must be a proficient, versatile,
current, effective and efficient teacher of office education in any of the Nigerian Colleges of
Education, must be computer literate, highly skillful and innovative, and should demonstrate
how to utilize and develop Information Technology in order to remain relevant in the modern
day world teaching and research. Recommendations included the need for NCCE to
integrate the current practices of Information Technology into the curriculum of the NCE
secretarial education of the Nigerian Colleges of Education, and the need for an urgent
retraining of the Secretarial Teachers in line with current Information Technology operations
and societal needs to augment for an up-date of curriculum content.
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BEING A PhD (BUSINESS EDUCATION) DISSERTATION
PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL
EDUCATION, FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA.
Keywords
RELATIONSHIP,, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,, SKILLS,, SECRETARIAL TEACHERS,, COLLEGES OF EDUCATION,, ABILITY,, UTILIZE,, INTERNET,, EFFECTIVE,, LECTURE,, DELIVERY