Title: EVALUATION OF ICT COMPETENCY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERSIN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA
Authors:
SONEYE Gbolade Michael, PhD and BOLARINWA Kayode Omotayo, PhD
Abstract:
The need to ensure qualitative teaching and learning in business education necessitated this study on evaluating ICT competency of Business Education lecturers in South-West Nigeria. One research question guided the study while three null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Population was 550 lecturers and students and the sample size was 302. A validated questionnaire containing 24 items was used for data collection. The reliability coefficients of the two sections of the instrument were 0.85 using Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Coefficient. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data relative to the research questions while Z-test was adopted to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that extent of ICT competencies of lecturers was low. It was further found that gender did not significantly influence the mean rating of respondents on the three areas covered but status and institution ownership did. It was recommended among others that management of the universities should support lecturers of business education by engaging them in retraining programmes to enhance their competences for effective utilization of ICT resources in order to equip the graduates with relevant competences for the 21th century global labour market.
Keywords: ICT, Business Education, Competency, Quality teaching and learning.
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