GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

 

The study was carried out to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology Utilization and Academic Performance of Junior Secondary School Computer Studies Students in Computer Software Application in Uyo Local Government of Akwa Ibom State.  In order to achieve this purpose, four research questions were raised and four hypotheses formulated to guide the study. The quasi-experimental design was used for this study. This design was considered suitable for the study because it’s enabled the researcher to establish two groups under experimentation. The population of this study was 1,260 students who offered Computer studies in JSS 2 class in 2019/2020 Academic Session from fifteen (15) public secondary schools in Uyo Local Government Area. The sample size of this study was 300 JSS 2 students, selected from 6 public secondary schools in Uyo local government of Akwa Ibom State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents from each school. Two instrument were used for data collection titled “Computer Studies Achievement Test on Word processing application packages (CSAWPAP) and Computer Studies Achievement Test on Spreadsheet application packages (CSATSAP). Face validation was used for validating these instruments. The internal consistency of CSAWPAP, CSATSAP were determined using Kuder-Richardson formula 20 in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).  This method was used because it determines reliability of a test. The reliability coefficient of CSAWPAP, CSATSAP were .78 and .76, respectively. The experimental groups were taught using information and communication technology for two (2) weeks, 60minutes per period while the control group was taught the same topics without information and communication technology for the same number of days. The sampled students were pretested using all the instruments (CSAWPAP and CSATSAP) before the appropriate actual treatments. The actual treatments were done in the first and second week while the posttests were administered immediately after complete treatments. The scores from the posttest were recorded and used to provide information on students’ academic performance across treatment groups. The research questions were answered using adjusted mean ( 16x"> ) and standard deviation (S.D). The formulated null Hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that there is a significance effect of information and communication technology utilization on academic performance of Computer studies students in word processing and spreadsheet packages in junior secondary schools in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.