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Assessment of Information and Communications Technology Skills Possessed by Teachers in Technical Colleges of Kano State, Nigeria
Author(s) -
Mujittapha Idris Wawo,
Dauda Moses,
Nasiru Bello Mohammed,
Rabiu Falama Akila
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
middle eastern journal of research in education and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-152X
pISSN - 2709-0140
DOI - 10.47631/mejress.v2i3.279
Subject(s) - whiteboard , information and communications technology , cronbach's alpha , test (biology) , descriptive statistics , animation , null hypothesis , population , mathematics education , engineering , multimedia , computer science , psychology , medical education , statistics , mathematics , world wide web , paleontology , computer graphics (images) , demography , sociology , biology , medicine
Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to assess of information and communications technology skills possessed by technical teachers in technical colleges of Kano State, Nigeria.Approach/Methodology/Design: A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 157 which consisted of 86 experienced and 71 inexperienced technical teachers of Technical Colleges in Kano State. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled: Assessment of Information and Communications Technology Skills Possession Question (AICTSPQ) developed by the researchers. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability coefficient of 0.78 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha reliability method. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.Findings: The finding of the study revealed that Technical teachers are unskillful in ICT operation such as MS excel, Photoshop, database, animation, forum and Corel draw; and have a low level of ICT utilization.Practical Implications: The findings of the study have implications for concerned authorities. The Government should provide ICT infrastructure in the State’s Technical Colleges in order to have conducive environment for teaching of the trade subjects and enforce integration by regular supervision among others.Originality/value: The technical teachers were unskilful in the following; MS excel, Photoshop, database, animation, forum and Corel draw, video conferencing, instructional game, interactive whiteboard and online teaching as the utilization of ICT facilities was low among technical teachers in Technical Colleges of Kano State.

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