Impact of Information Communication Technology on Academic Achievement of Business Administration Students of Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study investigated the impact of Information Communication Technology on academic achievement of Business Administration students of Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study adopts descriptive survey of research design. The population for this study consists of all Business Administration students, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 50 Business Administration students each from OND I and OND II respectively among all the students of Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State of Nigeria. A total of one hundred (100) OND Business Administration students were used as samples for the study. Three research questions were raised and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument for the study was self-designed questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to validity and reliability mechanism. The data collected were analysed using Chi-Square (X2) statistical analysis package. The results of the analyses showed that availability of ICT facilities influences academic achievement of students in Business Administration in Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The result also showed that utilization of ICT facilities influences academic achievement of students in Business Administration in Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Finally, analysis of the data collected also revealed that utilization of ICT facilities influences academic performance of students in Business Administration in Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Based on the findings of the study, conclusion and recommendations were made.
References
Ajisafe, O.E. (2014). Fostering utilization of information and communication technology skills among students of business education. Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Association of Business Educators of Nigeria 171 –174.
Awodun, A.O. & Ajisola, K.T. (2016). Impact of Communication Technology on Academic Performance of Physics Students in College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, 3(2), 160-166.
Burniske, R. (2001). Avaricious and Envious: Confessions of a Computer- Literate Educator, Phi. Delta Kappan, 8: 524-527.
David, M. (2005). Three aspects of ICT in education, Retrieved January 15 from http://otec.ilerengen.Edu/ICTuo.html.
Falobi, O. V. (2014). An investigation into the impact of ICT on commercial students’ academic performance in public schools in Lagos State, Journal of Association of Business Educators of Nigeria,1(1), 48-154.
Haddad, W. & Draxier, C. (2002). ICT in education: Potential and potency.
Karim, N. S. & Hassan, A. (2006). Reading Habits of and Attitude in the Digital Age:Analysis of Gender and Academic Program Differences in Malaysia. The Electronic Library 25 (3), 288-297.13
Krubu D. E. & Osawaru K. E. (2011). The impact of information and communication technology (ICT) in Nigeria University Libraries, Journal of Library Philosophy and practice, www.unllib.unl.edu/lpp.
Kwacha, P. Z, (2007). The imperative of information and communication technologies for teachers in Nigerian higher education, Merlot Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. 3(4).
Nigerian Educational Research Council (2012). Junior Secondary Education Curriculum for Business Studies JSS 1–3 (A millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Supported Project), Lagos: NERDC.
O’Hara S., Pritchard, R.& Bacon, P. (2014). Teaching vocabulary with hypermedia,Retrievedfrom www.education.com.
Obeng, T. K. (2004). The practical application of ICT in education. Results from a worldwide educational assessment,Computer and Education, 37, 163-178.
Ololube, N. P. M., Ubogu, A. E. & Ossai, A. G. (2007). ICT and distance education in Nigeria: A Review of Literature and Accounts, International Open and Distance Learning (IODL) Symposium.
Omotoso, E. (2006). Study Habits of Nigerian University Students, HERDSA conference. Available at: http://www.ecu.edu.au.conferences.
Pearson, C., Kinzer, G.& Leu, T. (2005). What is the impact of Technology on learning, Los Angeles: Prentice Hall.
Scott J. (2002). A matter of Record: Documentary Sources in social Research, Cambridge policy press.
Sultan, I. (2010). ICT, Vocabulary and Motivation, http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/ict-vocabulary-motivation. Retrieved on March 7th.
Tinio, V.L. (2002).ICT in Education, Available in http:www.eprimes.org.
Valasidou, A. & Bousiou-Makridou, D. (2005).Guidelines for the Design and Implementation of E- Learning Programmes, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference IADIS E-Society 2005, 27 June-30 June, Qawra, Malta.
Wikipedia, (2009). Information and Communication Technologies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communication_technologies.Retrieved on December 7, 2012.
Yusuf, M. (2005). Information and communication technology and education: Analysing the Nigerian national policy for information technology, International Educational Journal, 6(3): 316—321.
Copyright (c) 2021 IJO -International Journal of Business Management ( ISSN 2811-2504 )
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Author(s) and co-author(s) jointly and severally represent and warrant that the Article is original with the author(s) and does not infringe any copyright or violate any other right of any third parties and that the Article has not been published elsewhere. Author(s) agree to the terms that the IJO Journal will have the full right to remove the published article on any misconduct found in the published article.
