ASSESSMENT OF ICT COMPETENCIES POSSESSED BY NCE GRADUATE BUSINESS STUDIES TEACHERS IN ENUGU STATE.

Abstract

The study was undertaken to determine the level of ICT competencies of Business
studies teachers in junior secondary schools in Enugu East senatorial zone of Enugu state
Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypothesis were tested.
Survey design was adopted and the population consisted of 352 NCE graduate teachers in
junior secondary schools in the area. The entire population was used for the study. The
instrument used was questionnaire with a 5 point rating scale containing 27 items in two
sections. The instrument was validated by three experts, two in measurement and
evaluation and one in computer science. The reliability of the instrument was determined
using cronbach Alpha reliability formula forinternal consistency and reliability. Coefficients
of 0.76 and 0.85 were obtained for the two sections. Data in respect of a research
questions were analysed using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were
tested using independent t-test (I tail, p-val = 0.05) on SPSS software. The two research
questions showed that the ICT competency of teachers were moderate. All the two
hypotheses tested showed that there were significant differences between the mean
responses of the teachers (mean = 0.05), hence all the null hypotheses were rejected. The
study revealed that teachers were not highly competent in ICT to enhance their
teachings. Based on the finding of the study, it was recommended that government
should organise workshops, seminars and conferences for secondary school teachers to
enhance their ICT competencies and also grant study leave with pay to teachersto enable
themembarkonICTtraining programmes.