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PREDICTORS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) USE FOR INTERACTIVE TEACHING BY SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ IN EKET SENATORIAL DISTRICT OF AKWA IBOM SOUTH, NIGERIA

Nigeria’s National Policy for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) underlies a need for a sustained program to produce a significant number of ICT skilled personnel, integrate ICT into the national education curriculum, train and retrain, as well as retool teachers in the education system to develop their ICT competence. This study investigated ICT use among secondary school teachers in Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria, teachers’ attitudes towards ICT use, facilitating conditions for ICT use and cultural perception towards ICT. Stratified random sampling technique was used to draw up N-289 teachers from all public secondary schools in the study area. Descriptive and regression analysis was employed to investigate the variables that predicts ICT usage for interactive teaching. Result indicates that attitude, facilitating conditions and cultural perception predict ICT use. School culture and policy should demonstrate the benefits of ICT use, motivation and incentives are the keys to highlighting the positive impact of ICT integration, comprehensive training and re-training of teachers guided on specific needs of teachers were recommended.

KEYWORDS: Attitude, facilitating conditions, cultural perspective, ICT use

Arit Uyouko Uyouko Ph.D & Juliana James Isang-Thomas

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCEMENT IN EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, VOL 7 NO 1.