Secondary School Teachers’ Attitude Towards Information And Communication Technology In Ondo State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study was carried out to examine secondary school teachers’ attitude toward information and communication technology. The study covered twenty selected secondary schools in Ondo South senatorial district of Ondo state. Four hundred teachers were selected from 20 selected secondary schools out of 300 secondary schools in Ondo State using systematic random sampling technique. Five research questions and 5 hypotheses were formulated for the study. A descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. Data were collected and subjected to inferential statistics like frequency and percentage and chi-square. A questionnaire tagged “Teachers’ Attitude and Access to Information and Communication Technology” (TAAICT) adopted from Yusuf (2003) which has 20 items and divided into 3 sections was used to collect data. The validity and reliability of the instrument was ascertained, the instrument was valid and reliable. The findings showed that there was significant difference in the overall attitude of secondary schools’ teachers towards information and communication technology using teacher age, subject discipline, gender and years of experience and as variables. Based on the above findings, recommendations were made such as, government should encourage the use of modern technology in form of computer services; provide funds to schools through the Ministry of Education, purchase computer machine, and make them available to all public schools as operating in some private schools; government should also employ computer teachers who will not only teach the students but need to be computer literate.