The Relevance of ICT in Teaching and Learning as Perceived by Secondary School Students in Anambra State

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The study was designed to investigate the relevance of ICT in teaching and learning as perceived by
secondary school students in Anambra State. The study adopted a descriptive survey and was guided by four
research questions and two null hypotheses. The population comprised of all Junior Secondary School 2
(JSS2) students in public secondary schools studying computer studies in Anambra State. Purposive sampling
technique was used to select Awka Education Zone for the study. Simple random sampling technique
(balloting with replacement) was used to draw 10 co-educational public secondary schools out of 61 coeducational public secondary schools in Awka Education Zone of Anambra State. A multistage sampling was
used to select the sample. The sample consists of 10% of the selected co-educational public secondary schools
in Awka Education Zone. The total number of the sample used was 156 students. A questionnaire was
developed by researchers for data collection. The data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and ttest. The findings from the results revealed that ICT help students to master basic computer skills leading to
self reliance and self employed after school. It equally fosters students’ study interest and career prospects
like computer scientist, computer technologist and the like. Based on the findings, recommendations were
made. The study recommended among others that the Government should provide a retraining programme
for secondary school teachers to meet up with the challenges and demands of the new curriculum.