INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY LECTURERS FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE OBJECTIVES OF BUSINESS EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
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The study was conducted in Rivers State to identify ICT competencies required by lecturers for the realization of the objectives of business education. Two research questions and two null hypotheses were developed to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. A total of 71 lecturers of business education in the four tertiary institution offering business education programme in Rivers State constituted the population for the study. Due to the manageable size of the population, the entire 71 business education lecturers for the four tertiary institutions in the State were involved in the study, therefore, there was no sampling. The instrument for data collection for the study was a
structured 48-item questionnaire titled: “Information and Communication Technology Competencies Questionnaire (ICTCQ). The questionnaire was structured on 4-point rating scale of: Highly Required (HR), moderately Required (MR), Less Required (LR) and Not Required (NR) with corresponding
values of 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively. The instrument was validated by three experts while the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of the instrument yielded 0.86 indicating high reliability of the instrument. Data collected were analyzed using mean for answering the research questions while analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.
Based on the data collected and analyzed, the study identified 12 word processing, 13 spreadsheet, 10 and computer graphics and 13 internet competencies required by business education lecturers for realization of the objectives of business education in tertiary institution in Rivers State. Hence, the study among others recommended that the identified ICT competencies in word processing, spreadsheet, graphic and internet should be used for retaining of teachers and lecturers for effective use of ICTs for teaching and learning in Nigerian schools.
Keywords: Information, Communication, Technology, Business Education.
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