GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT The study examined the utilization of E-Learning facilities among Business studies students in Akwa Ibom State Secondary schools. The population of the study comprised all the six hundred and eighty one (681) business studies teachers and student in all the three hundred and forty (340) Secondary Schools owned by the Government. The study adopted survey design while purposive sampling technique was used to sample 631 business studies teachers; stratified sampling technique was used to select 631 JSS3 business studies students from the government owned secondary schools in the state. Two research instruments were used for data collection. The instrument were a questionnaire titled E-Learning facilities utilization questionnaire (EFUQ) and researchers made achievement test in business studies tagged “Business Studies Achievement Test (BSAT). The two research instrument were administered to the 631 teachers and 631 students and used for the study. The two instrument were vetted by 2 experts in the department of Educational Foundation in the Faculty of Education, University of Uyo and 1 expert in test and measurement from same institution before the reliability test was conducted with fifty (50) respondents and the result which ranged from 0.82 to 0.98 proved the Instrument reliable for the study. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics to answer the research questions and independent t-test analysis were all significant and from the result of the analysis, it was observed that there is significant influence of E-Learning facilities utilization on students academic performance in Business Studies in Akwa Ibom State Secondary Schools. Also there is significant influence of the effective use of internet facilities on the knowledge and skills of Business Studies students. One of the recommendations was that an in-service training programme should be organized for teachers for implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in order to aid E-Learning program. Keywords: E-Learning facilities, students, internet facilities, knowledge, Academic performance, Business Studies, Secondary Schools, Akwa Ibom State.