PERCEPTION OF HISTORY TEACHERS ON THE USE OF ICT FACILITIES FOR TEACHING HISTORY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ILORIN, NIGERIA
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2020-12-19
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Faculty of Education, Federal University of Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria.
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The study examined the perception of History teachers on the use of Information and communication Technology facilities for teaching History in secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis which comprised Ilorin East, Ilorin South and Ilorin West of Kwara State, Nigeria. The population of this study covered all three hundred and forty-five (345) History teachers in public and private senior secondary schools. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select thirty (30) public and twenty (20) private secondary schools while two (2) History teachers were randomly selected from each of the selected senior secondary schools to make a total number of one hundred (100) History teachers as sample for the study. A researcher’s designed questionnaire tagged “Teachers Perception on the Use of ICT Facilities Questionnaire (TPUICTFQ) was used as an instrument to collect data. In order to validate the research instrument, the draft was presented to two lecturers in the Department of Arts Education, and two experts in the field of Test and Measurement, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin for vetting. All the corrections made were effected, then, the final questionnaire was drafted. The reliability of the instrument was established using test re-test method which yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.61. Percentage and mode were used to answer the research question, inferential statistic of independent t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were also used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the use of ICT facilities have positive effects on the teaching and learning of History subject in secondary schools because it eases teachers’ instructional presentations, enhances teachers’ psychomotor domain in handling ICT facilities for teaching History as well as retain students’ knowledge of historical issues and events effectively. It was therefore recommended among others that History teachers should integrate ICT facilities for teaching so as to equip students with necessary skills and knowledge that will not only enable students optimize learning in a fast changing world but would also foster active and autonomous lifelong learners.
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History, ICT, Uses, Teachers’ Perceptions