Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study investigated teachers’ digital literacy and students’ learning satisfaction in secondary schools in Rivers State. Four research questions were answered and four hypotheses tested in the study. The study adopted correlation survey design. The population of the study comprised all the 6, 893 public secondary school teachers in Rivers State while 378 teachers were sampled for the study through simple random sampling technique. There were two questionnaires named “Teachers Digital Literacy Questionnaire” (TDLQ) and “Students Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire” (SLSQ) with 15 and 10 questionnaire items respectively used to collect data on the independent and dependent variables of the study respectively. The questionnaires were validated by two Educational Management lecturers at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt Rivers State while the reliability indices of the TDLQ and SLSQ were 0.82 and 0.87 respectively using Cronbach alpha statistics. Out of the 378 copies of the questionnaire administered, 362 copies representing 95.8% were properly filled and retrieved. Research questions one to three were answered using simple regression analysis while research question four was answered using multiple regression analysis. Similarly, hypotheses one to three were tested using t-test associated with simple regression while hypotheses four was tested using one-way analysis of variance at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study indicated that teachers digital content creation, digital communication and collaboration as well as digital safety and security competencies had low, moderate and low relationship of r= 0.301, 0.594 and 0.340 with the students learning satisfaction. The digital literacy of the teachers also had a moderate relationship of r=0.624 with the learning satisfaction of the students but all of these competencies were significant at 0.05 level of significance. This implies that the teachers are only moderately digitally literate as reflected in the learning satisfaction of the students. The study recommended the need for digital training for the teachers on how to use emerging technologies to improve on their general educational service delivery in these schools.