Author(s)

Adesua Veronica Olubunmi¹, Shaibu Leonard^2*, Udemba Esther Chinenye²

Affiliation(s)

¹Departmentof Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

²Department Of Educational Management And Business Education, Faculty Of Education, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Corresponding Author

Shaibu Leonard

ABSTRACT

The researchers evaluate factors influencing the use of computers for the teaching and learning process and its: implications for the management of secondary schools in Ankpa LGA., Kogi state, Nigeria with the purpose of preferring plausible strategies to be adopted in their use for actualizing educational objectives in schools. Two research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey was adopted for the study. A sample of 120 computer teachers from 23 government-owned secondary schools was randomly selected for the study. Factors Affecting the Use of Computer for Education Questionnaire (FATUCEQ) served as an instrument for data collection. The data collected were analyzed with the aid of the mean. and standard deviation. The results revealed that the factors militating against the effective use of computers for teaching and learning in public secondary schools in Ankpa LGA of Kogi State are lack of skills, cost of the facilities, weak infrastructure, lack of relevant software, limited access to the internet, poor power supply and poor government policy; the strategies to be adopted include computer training for teachers, procurement of hardware facilities, curriculum development, software development, maintenance of computer system, adequate funding, increase in government allocation to computer studies and provision of internet facilities. It was recommended amongst other things that qualified teachers who are skilled in computer technology should be posted to various secondary schools in the state. Computer technology should be integrated into the school curriculum without further delay and be made an examinable subject at the secondary school level and the State Ministry of Power should work towards stabilizing the power supply in the state.

KEYWORDS

Factors; Computer; Teaching and learning; Management; Secondary schools

CITE THIS PAPER

Adesua Veronica Olubunmi, Shaibu Leonard, Udemba Esther Chinenye. Evaluation of factors influencing the use of computer for teaching and learning process: implications for management of Secondary Schools in Ankpalga, Kogi State, Nigeria. Educational Research and Human Development. 2024, 1(1): 31-38. DOI: 10.61784/erhd3005.

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