Impact of Information Communication Technology on Teaching and Learning of Christian Religious Studies in Tertiary Institutions Programme Implementation in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Nigeria
Keywords:
Christian Religious Studies, Information Communication TechnologyAbstract
The paper assessed the impact of ICT on teaching and learning of Christian religious studies in tertiary institutions in FCT, Abuja, Nigeria. The study adopted corelational survey design for the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised of academic staff and students in the two selected institutions in FCT. The sample for the study consisted of 180 academic staff and students in the department of CRS using Taro Yamen’s formula. Proportionate stratified random sampling was used to select the number of academic staff and students in the selected institutions. Questionnaire was used for data collection. One instruments was used namely: ICT for teaching and learning of CRS questionnaire (ICTTLCRSQ) was used for data collection. 4-Likert scale. A 4-point Likert-type scale of strongly agree (SA), agree (A), disagree (D) and strongly disagree (SD) and it contained 24 items. The overall internal consistency reliability co-efficient index of the instruments obtained through cronbach alpha method was 0.97. Frequencies and simple percentages were used to analyze the total number of respondents who completed the questionnaires. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test all the two hypotheses. The 0.05 level of significance was used in rejecting or retaining the null hypotheses. The study disclosed that there was positive relationship between ICT and teaching and learning of Christian religious studies in tertiary institutions in FCT. The study also revealed that there was significant relationship between ICT and Christian religious studies researches in tertiary institutions in Abuja. Based on the findings, the paper recommends that
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