EXTENT OF HOME ECONOMICS LITERACY POSSESSED BY JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS.(A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE)

EXTENT OF HOME ECONOMICS 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.

EXTENT OF HOME ECONOMICS LITERACY POSSESSED BY JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS.(A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE)