INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) CAPACITY BUILDING FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS

Abstract

The study sought to find out the effective strategies for ICT capacity building for teachers in secondary schools in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. The research design for the study was descriptive research design. Randm sampling technique was used to select 10 out of 24 senior secondary schools in the area of study. Stratified random sampling was used to select 10 teachers from each of the sampled school making 100 respondents. Three research questions were raised to guide the study. Self-designed instrument tagged “Teachers’ Capacity Building through Information and Communication Technology and School effectiveness” (TCBICTSE) was used as instrument for data collection. The research questions were answered using mean, and any mean score equal to or higher than 2.5 implied agreed to the item, and lower than 2.5 implied disagreed to the items. The instrument was validated by three experts in the field of Curriculum, and Test and Measurement. The reliability of 0.87 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha. Findings of the study revealed that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is not being fully utilized in the study area, and that there are some strategies to be put in place to ensure effective ICT capacity building for teachers to be ICT compliance. It was recommended among others that intensive training of teachers on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) should be carried out periodically to enable teacher to be ICT compliance, Provision of ICT facilities to teachers and encourage them to use it for instructional delivery.