Attitude to and effect of Virtual learning on undergraduates’ academic performance in an Educational core course
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2023-03
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Department of Educational Foundation, University of Ilorin
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The rapid advancement of technology has significantly transformed the landscape of education globally, with virtual learning emerging as a prominent mode of instruction. Influence of learners’ attitude to virtual learning and its effect on their academic performance on research method course is of paramount to education stake holders and the society at large. This will increase need for high quality research that solve problems and meets global publishing standards. This research aims to explore and understand the attitudes of Nigerian university undergraduates towards virtual learning and its potential impact on their academic performance. This is action research and an ex-post facto research design was adopted. The study population is undergraduates who had taken both Measurements and Evaluation and research techniques courses in faculty of Education in a Nigerian University in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 academic session. A purposive sampling technique was used to choose a total of 2,931 students who had scores in both courses. A researcher designed questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.79 was used to elicit information from the respondent on their attitude, while Profoma was used to collect their scores in the two courses. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data collected. The results revealed that the undergraduates have positive attitude to virtual learning of EDU 316 and this in turn brings about good performance in the course. Also, importance of discipline- specific nuances in the effectiveness of virtual learning was revealed. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that more effort should be made to provide enabling environment for online learning through establishment of online learning facilities in all schools.
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Attitudes, virtual Learning, Academic performance, Education Core Course
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Daramola, D. S. (2023). Attitude to and effect of Virtual learning on undergraduates’ academic performance in an Educational core course. Nigeria Journal of Educational Foundations, 22 (1); 49-58. Published by Department of Educational Foundation, University of Ilorin