TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY

Abstract

Teachers’ perception of the use of information and communication technology for instructional delivery may be negative or positive which can affect its actual use. The survey research design was adopted for this study to assess teachers’ perception in Igarra, Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. The target population for the study was all teachers made up of 57 males and 78 females. Since this number was manageable by the researchers, census sampling was used to arrive at the sample for the study. The instrument for data collection was researchers’ designed, titled “Teachers’ Perception of the Use of ICT Questionnaire TPUICTQ)” and had two sections: ‘A’ was on demographic information and “B” contained the questionnaire items structured following 4-point Likert rating scale. Three each of ICT experts and teachers validated the instrument. Pilot test which involved 20 teachers was done outside Igarra. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability co-efficient which yielded 0.89 and 0.91. 135 copies of questionnaire were administered by the researchers and one assistant, 131 was retrieved out of which 129 representing 95.6% was used for the study. Frequency counts, percentages, mean score value set at 2.50 was used to analyse the data to answer the two research questions and t-test was employed to test the only hypothesis that guided the study. Findings revealed that teachers’ perception was negative which affected the actual use of ICT for instructional delivery. It was recommended that the teachers should rescind on their perception and explore the use of ICT for instructional delivery.