GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

Abstract The study was carried out to determine the computer science student’s perception of some web development skills in public and private Polytechnics in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The variables covered in this study were: Content design and Graphic animation. Two research questions were raised and three research hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Six polytechnics made up of two public and four private Polytechnics offering computer science programme in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria were covered by the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in which structured questionnaire were used for data collection. The population of the study was 606 National Diploma (NDII) computer science students. This comprised 258 and 348 students from Public and Private Polytechnics respectively. The research instruments were face-validated by four experts. Cronch Alpha technique was used to ascertain the internal consistency of the questionnaire and a reliability coefficient of 0.96 was obtained. Mean, standard deviation and t-test were the statistical tools employed for the analysis of data collected with questionnaire. The real limit of the mean was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the research hypotheses. The finding of the study revealed a significant difference between acquisition of web technology skills among computer science students in public and private Polytechnics in Akwa Ibom State. The study recommended that adequate facilities should be made available for the teaching of these skills practically and qualified teachers should be engaged. Keywords: perception of some wed development skills, web technology,