Assessment of Information and Communication Technology (Ict) Facilities in the Management of Colleges of Education in North Central Zone, Nigeria

MRS. ODEH; R. C. Ph.D; TYOKYAA; C. I. Ph.D

Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Assessment of Information and Communication Technology (Ict) Facilities in the Management of Colleges of Education in North Central Zone, Nigeria

Mrs. Odeh, R. C. Ph. D, Tyokyaa, C. I. Ph. D

Abstract :

The study assessed information and communication technology ICT facilities on the management of colleges of education in the north central zone Nigeria. It employed descriptive survey design. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised eleven colleges of education and six hundred and thirty (630) subjects. All the federal and states colleges of education in the study area were used for this study. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to draw three hundred and thirty (330) respondents for this study. Questionnaire titled Assessment of Information and Communication Technology Facilities (AICTFQ), observation and unstructured oral interview were used as instruments for data collection. Mean was used to answer the two research questions, while T– test, correlation coefficient and standard deviation were used to test the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Some of the major findings of the study include: no ICT item was found to be always available; most of the items are rarely or never available while few are sometimes available; a few of the items are sometimes found in use while majority are rarely or never found in use. Finally, it was found that Federal Colleges of Education (COEs) have higher levels of availability and utilization of ICT facilities than the state COEs. Some of the recommendations of the study include: that adequate computers, internet centre and cyber café should be made available by the federal and state governments to each college department in order to provide accessibility for the use of ICT facilities in college management, teaching, learning, and research purposes. The government should make the use of internet in the management of COEs compulsory.