Abstract: The study examined Information Communication Technology and Academic Performance of Students among secondary school students in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. To accomplish the purpose of this study, three research questions and three null-hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study while random sampling technique was adopted to select one hundred and sixty senior secondary two students from eight selected secondary schools. Government Achievement Test (GAT) was used as the instrument for data collection while an independent t-test statistical method was used to analyze the data for the study. The findings revealed that availability and use of ICT resources, teacher’s knowledge in the use of ICT resources as well as accessibility to ICT resources by the students exert significance influence on Student’s Academic Performance in Economic in Secondary School in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area.
Information Communication Technology and Academic Performance of Students
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Computer and Communication combines to give information to technology (IT) by which the use of information become far more efficient. According to Aina (2015) and efficient use of information can affect society and education. He added that computer has made direct impact on education in the form of system that are actually involved with the teaching process. The author also pointed out some of the system to include computer assisted instruction, computer assisted learning, computer training and computer management instruction. However, educators across Nigeria recognized that students must have good education that enables them to participate successfully in and contribute positively to the realizing of national objectives.
Schools also are developing and implementing technology plans and investing in computers and other new technologies in particular, educators realize that computer networking offers flexible and powerful new ways to accomplish a range of goals in school. During the last two decades higher education institutions have invested heavily Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT has had a major impact in the university context, in organization and in teaching and learning methods.
Therefore, education has to be continuously preoccupied to create information, handling skills and abilities among the students and teachers so that they have improved methods of teaching and learning through the provision of the necessary facilities. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in secondary schools have offered a sample opportunities and advantages to education more people rapidly to improve efficiency and to improve their academic performance in Government.
Computer and Communication combines to give information to technology (IT) by which the use of information become far more efficient. According to Aina (2015) and efficient use of information can affect society and education. He added that computer has made direct impact on education in the form of system that are actually involved with the teaching process. The author also pointed out some of the system to include computer assisted instruction, computer assisted learning, computer training and computer management instruction. However, educators across Nigeria recognized that students must have good education that enables them to participate successfully in and contribute positively to the realizing of national objectives.
The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning is becoming wider in scope today to our schools nationwide. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is not only restricted to its usage as instructional materials inform of teaching aid but it as become a tool to reshape knowledge delivery and hence both teachers and students activities in the classroom. However, studies have shown that majority of students in secondary schools lack basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills.
This is as a result of non-availability of these resources in secondary level of learning or inability of the schools to use these Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities. In addition, attempts have been made to establish relationship between Information Communication and Technology behavior. Ibe Bassey (2014) and Inyang-Abia (2004) noted that media mediate in a continuum between stimulus response learning and cognitive performance to concretize ideas, concepts and facilitate performance. This reveals that ICT is capable of storage, retrieval, conveyance and dissemination of information. Similarly, the ICT media to include radio, television, computer and internet facilities, computer game console, DVD Player and recorded digital camera, scanner and the rest of them.
To meet these challenges, learning institutions must embrace the new technologies and appropriate ICT tools for learning. The relationship between the use of ICT and student performance in higher education is not clear, and there are contradictory results in the literature. Earlier economic research has failed to provide a clear consensus concerning the effect on students’ achievement.
Information Communication Technology and Academic Performance of Students
1.2 Statement of the Problem
In this era of scientific and technological development, the standards of academic achievement in schools have been a matter of great concern to everybody. This is so because a lot of criticisms have been put forward on the performance of students in our public government schools in Nigeria. The general slogan associated with the educational system is the fallen standard of education.
Personal observation have shown that most parents in Nigeria do not have ICT support in their home and majority rarely apply ICT facilities in their daily activities while few others do have these facilities and also apply them in their daily activities. This is not too comfortable because skills demand profile globally has shown that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and internet network skills top the list of highly sought after skills followed by programming skill (Marilla, 2014). The fact that the future of our educational development depends on modern technology cannot be overemphasized. This technology stems from the availability and accessibility of ICT resources at home and parental knowledge on computer usage. This triggered the researcher to asked could the parental education, socio-economic background influence the students’ acquisition of computer education in secondary schools in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area? Finding answer to this question necessitated this present study.
