ASSESSMENT OF DIGITAL LITERACY OF COMPUTER TEACHERS IN THE UTILIZATION OF COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION IN TEACHING DATA PROCESSING IN ANAMBRA SCHOOLS

Abstract

The study assesses the level of digital literacy of teachers in the Utilization of computer aided Instruction (CAI) in the teaching and learning of data processing in public secondary schools in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. The population of the study consisted of 986 of both teachers and students from 19 public secondary schools in the Awka South L.G.A. The sample size consists of 307 respondents which was drawn from291 students and Sixteen (16) teachers from ten (10) public secondary schools that offer data processing in the Awka South L.G.A using Null Histage technique. Sixteen (16) items questionnaire with reliability index of 0.78 established using the Cronbach-alpha formula. Three research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. The mean and standard deviation scores were used to analyze the research questions while the t-test was used to analyze the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance and degree of freedom 1.96.The findings show that computer aided instructional approach though was perceived to have positive influence in teaching and learning of data processing by the respondents, its use in teaching is still faced by a number of challenges such as lack of knowledge of computer and operational skills, and in some cases nonfunctional computer laboratories among others. The study recommended that education institutions should incorporate in their programmes, computer courses targeted at producing teachers who should be computer literate enough to move with technology driven instructional delivery in secondary schools in our quest for digitalization of teaching and learning among others.