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EXTENT OF
COMPUTER LITERACY POSSESSED BY JUNIOR SECONDARY
SCHOOL
SCIENCE TEACHERS. (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE).
ABSTRACT.
There is a need for everybody to be
computer literate in the society, and this made us to carry out this project
work titled the extent of computer literacy possessed by junior secondary
science teachers in Enugu education zone. We have five research designs and the
area of the study is Enugu education zone. Simple random sampling was used. The
sample of the study is made up of 10 schools selected at random from the 27
existing schools in the zone. 50 teachers were selected from the 150 teachers
in the zone, that is, 5 teachers from each of the 10 schools sampled.
The main instrument for data
collection was questionnaire. The instrument was structured according to
strongly agree, agree, disagreed and strongly disagreed. In our study, we find
out that the teachers still have along way to go in the world of computer.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
………………………………………………………………………………i.
APPROVAL
PAGE ………………………………………………………………………ii.
DEDICATION
……………………………………………………………………………iii.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……………………………………………………………….iv.
ABSTRACT……………………………………………………………………………….vi.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
……………………………………………………………..vii.
CHAPTER ONE:
INTRODUCTION.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY …………………………………………
1.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
…………………………………………5.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY …………………………………………………
6.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
………………………………………….6.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
……………………………………………………..7.
1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
……………………………………………………7.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
…………………………………………………….8.
CHAPTER TWO:
LITERATURE REVIEW.
2.0 INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………10.
2.1 COMPUTER LITERACY …………………………………………………….10.
2.1:1SOCIAL
IMPLICATION OF COMPUTER LITERACY ………………12.
2.2 COMPUTER AGE …………………………………………………………….14.
2.3 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
……….15.
2.4 THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION
…………….16.
2.5 THE MAJOR COMPONENT PARTS OF COMPUTER
………………17.
2.6 DATA PROCESSING…………………………………………………………22.
2.7 APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE
………………………………………….23.
2.8 SUMMARY OF REVIEWED LITERATURE
…………………………….24.
CHAPTER
THREE: RESEARCH METHODS.
3.0 INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………….25.
3.1 DESIGN OF THE STUDY ………………………………………………….25.
3.2 AREA OF THE STUDY ……………………………………………………..26.
3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY
………………………………………….26.
3.4 SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
…………………………….27.
3.5 INTRODUCTION FOR DATA COLLECTION
…………………………27.
3.6 VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT …………………………………27.
3.7 RELIABILITY OF THE INSTRUMENT
…………………………………27.
3.8 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION ……………………………………28.
3.9 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS …………………………………………28.
CHAPTER
FOUR.
4.0 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND SUMMARY OF DATA
……..29.
4.1 RESEARCH QUESTION 1 ……………………………………………….29.
4.2 RESEARCH QUESTION 2 ……………………………………………….32.
4.3 RESEARCH QUESTION 3 ………………………………………………..34.
4.4 RESEARCH QUESTION 4 …………………………………………………36.
4.5 RESEARCH QUESTION 5 …………………………………………………38.
CHAPTER
FIVE.
5.0 DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATION AND
SUMMARY………………………………………………………………………41.
5.1 DISCUSSION …………………………………………………………………41.
5.2 CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………………..42.
5.3 RECOMMENDATION ……………………………………………………….43.
5.4 SUMMARY ……………………………………………………………………..44.
REFERENCES.
………………………………………………………………………45.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
This century has witnessed the
transformation of the human society from the industrial age to information age.
The volume of information that circulates in an economy is now a measure of the
level of advancement of any economy. Industries enjoy relative advantage over
their competitors if they have monopoly of some classes of business
information. Nation is stronger than others because they have more information.
It is therefore, not surprising that government and private business
organizations invest significant proportion of their budget in information
technology. The computer plays a central role in the acquisition, processing,
storage, dissemination, and use of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical
information. The use of computer has revolutionized the way we do business,
study, work, and social activities and so on, as well as continue to touch and change
our daily lives in a profound way. So significant is the impact of computer
that it is regarded as an enabling technology, the facilitator of change and
the creator of hitherto unimaginable possibilities.
According to Okolo (2007), the critical
analysis of the definition of computer, performs three devises that qualify it
as a computer;
i. Receiving input as data.
ii. Processing the received data.
iii. Providing the processed data as
information.
Therefore, a person’s skills in using
computer system will largely determine his or her values in workforce in coming
decades. Computer literacy is already beginning to create a great impact on
career opportunities as ordinary literacy did in the past.
Okolo defined computer literacy as a
way of being able to tell a computer to do what one wants it to do through
operation. For one to tell a computer what to do for him or her, the person
must understand exactly what he or she wants. Then for the computer to perform
the operational task given to it effectively, the operator has to go through
the information before he or she could confirm it.
Therefore, for one to be able to instruct
the computer to do certain work for him or her, he or she must know and
understand computer language such as; programming languages. No one can use
computer without giving it instruction, which is programming it. We should
understand that programming skills work together with computer operation from
the backbone of computer literacy.
Okolo (2007), defined computer as an
electronic gadget or device that accepts data as an input and processed the
data electronically to produce the desired output or information with the aid
of a set of instructions. A computer machine requires some means of accepting
data called input port. Somewhere to store the data called memory, somewhere to
keep the sequence of operations to be manipulating the data or performing the
circulation called the Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) and finally, a method of
telling the result of the calculation.
These facilities are common to all
computing machine regardless of the task the machine is used for.
Edafiogho (2007) outlined the
different ways information and communication technology (ICT) can be applied to
education to include learning, on-line learning, digital literacy, assessment,
information literacy and digital virtual library. ICT can be used in education
for tele-processing, telephone, database, electronic bulletin board and so on.
In teaching and learning especially in secondary schools ICT have been very
useful in a variety of ways. A breakdown of the application shows that ICT is
needed in the following areas;
i. Provision of instructional materials
that are used in teaching and learning of cumbersome and uninteresting topics.
ii. It also provides opportunity for teachers
to have an access to teaching aids used in other parts of the world to
understand a concept.
iii.
Provision of ICT in secondary schools helps in improving access to
learning opportunities, redress in equalities, improves the quality of learning
and delivers long-life learning opportunities.
iv. It helps the teachers and students to
access information in their class work and assignment.
v. It enables teachers to choose from
variety teaching and learning experience which the teacher can use to permit
instruction in the learners.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Education is
a field in which data processing using computer as an aid of teaching and
learning in a classroom, communication that is the use of internet for wide
research across the globe and for effective communication to the whole world is
necessary.
It is quite essential for both the
teachers and students to become computer literate in other to enable them cope
with the continuous development in the society.
We then, find out that in our
educational institution today, both the teachers and students are still
ignorant in information technology. For this ignorance, Enugu Education Zone is
not left out. They still have second hand information of what is going on in
society. There is every reason to ask therefore, what is the extent of computer
literacy among teachers, precisely science teachers in Enugu Zone?
1.3 PURPOSE OF STUDY
The purpose of this project aims at
ascertaining the extent of computer literacy possessed by junior secondary
school science teachers in Enugu Zone.
Specifically,
the purpose of this project is to find out;
a. To what extent are the schools
computerized?
b. To what extent has the teachers known how
to use computers to communicate?
c. Can the teachers teach computer operation
very well to the students?
d. To what extent has the teachers reached,
in knowing the general overview of computer?
e. To what extent can the teachers make use
of Microsoft office package?
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
When this research has been carried out, the
extent of
computer
literacy possessed by junior secondary science teacher in
Enugu state,
precisely Enugu zone, will be known we will contribute great ideas that will be
used to carry everybody along in terms of becoming computer literate.
We have to say the importance of
computer in data processing, teaching and learning in the classroom and also
for communication. Having talked about this, it will help the government and
Parents Teachers Association (P.T.A) tot put things in order and as supposed.
Therefore, in this project work we
meant the way forward to all the teachers and also schools to buy the idea if
it would be necessary for them. We should move higher to acquire knowledge,
more especially on computer to enable us cope with that of global age.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study
only covers the extent of computer literacy possessed by junior secondary
schools science teachers in Enugu education of Enugu state only.
1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The
following research questions were formulated to guide the study;
i. To what extent has the teachers known
how to use computer to communicate?
ii. To what extent has the schools been
computerized?
iii. To what extent has the teachers reached in
knowing how to teach computer very well?
iv. To what extent has the teachers known
general overview of computer?
v. To what extent can the teachers make use
of Microsoft office package?
1.7 DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
a. Computer: This is an electronic machine
that accepts data as input, processes the data, generates output (result) in
form of information and also, stores both the input/data and output information
for further usage.
b. Computer Literacy: This can be defined as
a means whereby someone knows how to operate or make use of computer
effectively.
c. Hardware: This is a collective terms that
refer to all physical component of computer that can be seen and touched.
d. Software: This is collective programs that direct the
hardware on what to do and how to accomplish such operation.
e. Data Processing: This is the manipulation
which a computer does in data in order to transform it into information.
f. Information Technology: This is referred
to as the study of electronic equipment, especially computers, for storing,
processing, analyzing and sending out of information.
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