EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON SECRETARIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN SOFTWARE APPLICATION
Abstract
The study focused on determining whether or not the use of technology in the teaching of a Software application course impacted on secretarial education students’ performance. The comparative research design was adopted for the study as the results of the students in the course for four different years (2012 – 2015) were analyzed. One research question was raised and 3 hypotheses were
formulated to guide the study. The population, which also formed the sample size, was made up of 163 secretarial education students in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology who registered for the Course within the four year period. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question while z-test and Pearson product moment correlation were used to test
the hypotheses. The results indicated that the secretarial education students who were taught the software application course without the use of technology (2012 – 2013) performed better than those who were taught with the use of technology (2014 – 2015). Also the results showed that the performance of secretarial education students who were taught the software application course
without the use of technology significantly differed from those who were taught with the use of technology. It was recommended that business education lecturers should begin to adopt the usage of technology in delivering their lectures as this will help reduce students’ phobia about technologyintegration
in the learning process. Projectors should be fixed in all the lecture halls as this will encourage lecturers to design their course content in such a way that content delivery can be done with the use of PowerPoint presentations.
Keywords: Technology, teaching, software application course, secretarial education, students’ performance, PowerPoint presentations
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