EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-BASED INSTRUCTION ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AMONG NCE STUDENTS IN KOGI STATE.
EFFECT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-BASED INSTRUCTION ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AMONG NCE STUDENTS IN KOGI STATE.
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2012-04
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AJIBILI, Ocheje
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Abstract
IT-based insruction in contemporary education has the potentials to accelerate,
enrich and deepen skills, and provide opportunities for connection between the
school and the world of globalisation. It has been observed that since the
introduction of mordern IT-based insruction into mordern teaching and learning
process, social studies education is yet to comply adequately with this trend of
teaching, this is due to the fact that most teachers and students in social studies
are not computer literate. Even in cases where the teachers are literate, they find
it challenging to alter the traditional techniques of teaching in favour modern ITbased
instruction. Basically, the thrust of this experiment is centered on the effect
of Information Technology-based instruction on the academic performance in
social studies among NCE students in Kogi state, thus, the quasi experimental
design was adopted for the study and a sample of 120 was selected through the
simple ramdom sampling. The SPSS version 16 was used to analyse the t-test
statistic, and the level of significance for determining the statistical significance of
the study, was placed at 0.05 with the degree of freedom of 118 for hypothesis
one and 58 for hypotheses two, three and four. The result showed among other
findings that there is significant difference between the academic performance of
students taught social studies using IT-based instruction and their counterparts
taught with traditional techniques. The result of the findings revealed further
that gender is not a barrier to the application of IT-based instruction into social
studies teaching and the last leg of the experiment affirmed the postulation that
there is a significant difference between the academic performance of social
studies students in Federal government-owned institution and state governmentowned
institution when applying IT-based instruction in teaching, this means that
the location of an institution is paramount to the academic performance of
students in social studies education. Finally, the study recommended an outright
incorporation of modern IT-based instruction in teaching. It called for the training
and retraining of social studies teachers in the organisation of contents using ITbased
instruction in teaching.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIA.
Keywords
EFFECT OF INFORMATION,, TECHNOLOGY-BASED,, INSTRUCTION,, THE ACADEMIC,, PERFORMANCE,, SOCIAL STUDIES,, AMONG NCE STUDENTS,, KOGI STATE.