Influence of selected factors on ICT usage among education college lecturers in Kano State, Nigeria
Nigerian studies confirms that ICT lecturers in the country have low levels of ICT usage due to a lack of computers in the departments and inaccessibility to the Internet. Furthermore, poor information infrastructure accounts for low ICT development and application. Although a few studies have fo...
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| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/90589/1/FPP%202020%2010%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | Nigerian studies confirms that ICT lecturers in the country have low levels of ICT usage
due to a lack of computers in the departments and inaccessibility to the Internet.
Furthermore, poor information infrastructure accounts for low ICT development and
application. Although a few studies have focused on selected factors of ICT usage, not
much is known about the extent of ICT usage. This study determined the level of ICT
usage and selected factors of ICT usage, such as Performance Expectancy (PE), Effort
Expectancy (EE), Social Influence (SI), Facilitating Conditions (FC), Technological
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), and attitudes towards ICT (ATTIC).
The study is a quantitative descriptive research. The research instrument was a set of
questionnaires—the population of the study comprised 1775 college lecturers in Kano
State, Nigeria. The minimum sample size for this study was 232 lecturers. The
respondents were selected based on a proportionate stratified random sampling
technique. The data was collected using an adapted questionnaire containing the
respondent profile, ICT usage, and the six selected factors above. Descriptive statistics,
including frequencies, percentages, mean, and standard deviation were applied to
describe the respondent profile and their ICT usage level, as well as and the related
factors of ICT usage. Meanwhile, inferential statistics including Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA), correlation analysis, and logistic regression were employed to compare the
mean scores, to determine the relationship between the variables, and to identify the
extent of the influencing factors of ICT usage.
The findings revealed that more than half of the lecturers had a low ICT usage level;
therefore, relevant stakeholders are recommended to take all the possible means to
improve ICT usage among Kano State lecturers, as this action could eventually impact
the teaching and learning processes in various institutions in Nigeria. This step should be done while considering the factors that relate to the ICT usage of the lecturers
surveyed in this study. |
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