Information Communication Technology Resources and Learning Outcome of Secondary School Students in Ondo State, Nigeria

• Main Author: Akinrotimi Iyiomo Oyetakin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2015-08-01
• Series: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
• Subjects: Investment; Dilapidated structures; poor funding; ICT gadgets; Purchasing Power Parities (PPP$) of money; sectoral budget restructuring
• Online Access: http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/EB722GF15.pdf

This study was set to investigate the Impact of Information Communication Technology resources and learning outcome of secondary school students in Ondo State, Nigeria. Thirty public secondary schools and thirty private secondary schools, thus a total of 1200 students after stratification were randomly selected for the study. A self constructed and validated Questionnaire was used for data collection. The title is, Impact of ICT on Educational Resources and Learning Outcome Questionnaire" (ICTERLOQ). This was validated and subjected to reliability of r= 0.76. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and oneway ANOVA to answer questions raised and hypotheses formulated in the study. The findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between availability of ICT resources and learning outcomes in Ondo State secondary schools (r = .999, P< 0.05). It was also revealed that that there is no significant difference in the provision of ICT resources and learning between private and public secondary schools in Ondo State (t (1,199) = .002; P> 0.05). The study discovered that there are challenges of fund for ICT provision and maintenance to aid learning outcome in Ondo State secondary schools. In view of the findings, recommendations were made to help improve the financing of ICT resources in public and private secondary schools. There should be urgent need for an inter-sectoral budget restructuring to release more resources for education. This will go a long way in meeting both students and teachers requirement for effective service delivery in improving the school system effectiveness and efficiency.