UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADATES' USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TO LEARN CONCEPTS IN SOCIAL STUDIES

Abstract

The study accessed undergraduate use of Information and Communications Technology
for learning concepts in social studies in Universities. Three research questions were
raised out of which two of them were hypothesized. A descriptive research design was
used in the study. Students enrolled in Edo State's federal and state colleges totaling 55,
545 made up the study's population. Three hundred and twenty-one (321) students
studying computer science at the 200 and 300 level made up the sample for the study.
The sample was chosen using a purposeful sampling strategy. Undergraduates' Use of
Information and Communication Technology (UUICT), a questionnaire created by the
researcher, served as the study's instrument. Three instructors from the University of
Benin's Faculty of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instructional Technology
validated the instrument. The instrument was given to twenty undergraduates who were
not involved in the main research in order to determine its reliability. The results of this
analysis were examined using Cronbach's Alpha statistic, which yielded a reliability
coefficient of 0.703. The investigation's issues were addressed with frequency counts,
simple percentages, means, and standard deviations; the t-test statistics were employed
test the null hypotheses. The findings showed that ICT is not used to its full potential by
Edo State undergraduate students in state and federal universities. There was no
variation in the way that Edo State university students used ICT resources based on their
gender or type of school. It was therefore recommended among others that students
should be encouraged to use ICT for the learning of social studies concepts.

Keyword: Technology, University, Utilization, Undergraduate, Learning