STATUS OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STUDENTS IN ACQUISITION OF COMPETENCY REQUIRED ININFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY INCOLLEGES OF EDUCATION, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the status of Office Technology and Management students (OTM) in
acquisition of competency required in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). To
achieve the objectives of the study, three research questions were raised and answered while two
hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted
descriptive research design. The population for the study consisted of one hundred and fortyeight (148) Business Education (Office Technology and Management option) students, there was
no sampling due to manageable size of the population. The questionnaire was face-validated by
three experts from the Department of Business Education, Tai Solarin University of Education,
Ijagun, Ogun State. Test-retest reliability method was adopted to establish the reliability of the
instrument with the co-efficient of r is equal to 0.78. The questionnaire was administered to one
hundred and forty-eight (148) respondents and all were retrieved and data collected were
subjected to analysis. Frequency and percentages were used to analyse respondents’ bio-data,
mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while t-test statistic was
used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that new office technological
equipment are available for students’ use thereby benefited from the availability of the
equipment. It is equally revealed that respondents faced challenges in the effective utilization of
ICT tools. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, new technologies
should be effectively used by the Office Technology and Management (OTM) students and
government should make provision for funds for the timely procurement of appropriate
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment.