Effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Teacher Education in Dutse Local Government Area, Jigawa State of Nigeria

Abstract

Teacher Education is very vital and essential for effective, effective, and functional education which needs to be improved Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are globally assumed it enhance teaching and learning processes. It is a survey research design conducted in Dutse, Jigawa State of Nigeria, questionnaire and interview schedules were used for data collection, and the data collected was analyzed using simple percentages and mean. The population of the study was comprised of six hundred and seventy-one (671) teachers in the thirty-seven (37) Government Junior Secondary Schools in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Based on the proportional sampling technique, one hundred and eleven (111) teachers were selected from the thirty-seven (37) schools in the State that is three (3) teachers were randomly selected from the 37 Junior Secondary Schools to constitute the sample for the study. The study has five objectives translated into five research questions and five hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested at 95% degree of freedom and 0.05 level of significance, all the stated alternate hypotheses were accepted based on the critical values being greater than the calculated value. It was concluded that ICT has an association with teacher education in Dutse Jigawa State, it was recommended that government and policymakers should invest more in terms of integrating ICT into Teacher Education to sustain the benefits of ICT to teacher education.