Abstract
The study investigated the extent to which demographic factors and information literacy skills of students in Ogun State, Nigeria determine their utilisation of media resources. The survey research design of the ex-post facto was adopted while the questionnaire was used as the major instruments of data collection. The study was anchored on the information richness and information utilisation capacity theories. Findings from the study reveal possession of the moderate level of information literacy skills by the students. The types of and major purposes of utilisation of media resources were charts, internet and newspapers for academic purposes as well as maps, simulation materials, video clips and real objects for entertainment purposes. Also, realia, flipchart, globes and textbooks were established as media resources being majorly utilised for knowledge acquisition by senior secondary school students in Ogun State, while video clips, real objects and samples as well as slides were found to be the most commonly utilised media resources for information purposes. On the frequency of utilisation of the media resources, an occasional use of media resources was established. Background factors and information literacy skills were found to have joint contribution to media resources utilisation by the students while information literacy skills were found to be the leading contributor to media resources utilisation among secondary school students in Ogun State, Nigeria. Keywords : Information, literacy skill, media resource, utilisation, student.
Highlights
Secondary education can be described as the gateway to opportunities and benefits of economic and social development because it has a vital mission which combines the policy peculiarities of terminal and preparatory, compulsory, uniform and diverse, general and vocational educational opportunities
The results showed Charts (217, 38.5%), compact disks (CDs)/DVD (212, 37.7%), Internet (196, 34.8%) and Newspapers (182, 32.3%) as topping the list of media resources being utilised for academic purposes while real objects and samples (99, 17.6%) and video clips (84, 14.9%) ranked least as attested to by the larger portion of the respondents
It can be deduced that 5.9% of the variance in media resources utilisation by the students is accounted for by the independent variables, when taken together
Summary
Secondary education can be described as the gateway to opportunities and benefits of economic and social development because it has a vital mission which combines the policy peculiarities of terminal and preparatory, compulsory, uniform and diverse, general and vocational educational opportunities. Media resources can be seen to have the ability to play important role in secondary education. Standardized Coefficients (B) Std. Error Beta T Sig. Table 6 presented the result on the relative contributions of the independent variables (background factors, information literacy, media resources preference and access) to the dependent variable (media resources utilisation), expressed as beta weights using the standardised regression coefficient to determine the relative contributions of the independent variables. Information literacy skills was found to be the leading contributor to media resources utilisation (β = 0.146, t= 3.213, p < 0.05) It can, be deduced from the results that information literacy skills is the leading contributor to media resources utilisation by secondary school students in Ogun State and that the contribution was significant while the contribution of background factors was found to be the lowest and that the contribution was not significant
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