The Influence of Ict on Morale Behaviours of Secondary School Students
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The major objectives of this study include to:
- Find out if ICT influences students’ moral behaviours.
- Examine whether a relationship exists between ICT and students’ academic performance.
- Investigate whether gender difference exists in the delinquent behaviours of students as a result of the use of information communication technology.
- Determine whether there is relationship between the use of ICT and adolescents’ social adjustment in the school.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
ICT IN EDUCATION
According to the commonly accepted concept of mankind – epistemology, also referred as a theory of knowledge humans can be seen as a system that processes informations. His behaviour does not only depend on the current information coming to him from all sides, but also from the so-called cognitive structures, which are encoded in the memory of the knowledge gained in the course of learning and thinking. The human is also being independent and creative. Learning and teaching should enable him to not only process information, but also to create a new cognitive structure based on the basic information and develop skills of continuous learning to cope with new emerging information resources. Most of the areas of knowledge, and therefore the fields of education, are characterized by the accumulation of vast amounts of information. Teaching can therefore not be focused on the transfer of teachers knowledge and the accumulation of presented facts by the students, but it should offer students primarily the basic knowledge and skills with which they themselves would be able to reach the information they need. This means that schools should move away from an encyclopedic learning approach and instead teach students how to gain knowledge by developing their skills in continuous learning and teach them how to find reliable sources of knowledge and how to decide what information is essential and relevant . There are many theories and perspectives of how teaching should take place. Those theories reflect the diverse courses in which epistemological traditions impact the experiences we have and how we feel they affect teaching. There are four dominant learning theories such as behaviourism, cognitivism, humanism and (social)constructivism. In this report cognitivism and social-constructivism are the base of the analysis. Cognitivism theory bases its learning process on transferring of information from teacher to learner. In social-constructivism theory an information is subjectively interpreted by the student. The interpretation is based on a personal experience of the learner. Nowadays, a huge resource of information is stored and transmitted in electronic form such as all possible data storage devices, as well as Internet and Intranets. For this reason, and also because of the size of the resources, the use of the information is sometimes difficult or impossible without the assistance of computers. This applies not only to numerical information normally related to the fields traditionally linked to the use of computers, such as mathematics and physics, but it can be applied to an even greater range of subjects of natural sciences and the humanities, which also contain tremendous amounts of data and the relationships between them are generally more loose than in the exact science.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to the influence of ICT on morale behaviours of secondary school students
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information on the influence of ICT on morale behaviours of secondary school students. 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Oshodi Government Area of Lagos State was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
DATA ANALYSIS
The data collected from the respondents were analyzed in tabular form with simple percentage for easy understanding.
A total of 133(one hundred and thirty three) questionnaires were distributed and 133 questionnaires were returned.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain the influence of ICT on morale behaviours of secondary school student
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of ICT on morale behaviours of secondary school student
Summary
This study was on the influence of ICT on morale behaviours of secondary school student. Four objectives were raised which included: Find out if ICT influences students’ moral behaviours, examine whether a relationship exists between ICT and students’ academic performance, investigate whether gender difference exists in the delinquent behaviours of students as a result of the use of information communication technology, determine whether there is relationship between the use of ICT and adolescents’ social adjustment in the school. The total population for the study is 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Oshodi local government of Lagos state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up principals, vice principals adm, senior staff and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
Students have a positive attitude towards the use of ICT to support studies and facilitate learning. As such, they use computers and the internet on daily basis to communicate through e-mail and chat, and also for research/studying. ICT is considered to exploit the flexibility of training. The rhythm of study, the allocation of time and the availability of teachers can allow better articulation between private life/professional life (studies) as well as a better allocation of time between the various uses.
Recommendation
The government schools should procure the necessary ICT infrastructure for their schools to enable the teachers and students benefit maximally in the ongoing technological development and ICT contribution in educational advancement.
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