Understanding the Linkage between University Students' and Instructors Use of Online Resources and Their Academic Attainment in Social Studies

Thomas Ajayi,Olugbenga A Ige,Peter A Amosun

doi:10.13189/ujer.2021.090901

Abstract

Few decades ago, the Internet became a new home for academic research and a spot where teaching and learning materials could be found. A cursory look at previous studies on university instructors' use of online resources shows intermittent influence students' academic outcomes in Nigerian schools. Although, several efforts have been put in place to establish a cordial and steady relationship between university instructors' use of online resources and the students' academic attainment in Nigerian schools, it seems that there is paucity of studies on the linkage between university instructors' use of online resources and students' academic attainment in Social Studies. This research explored the relationship between Social Studies lecturers' use of online resources and students' performance in the course. This study adopted descriptive research using correlational design, and purposive sampling technique. 398 students at two Bachelor of Education degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria responded to the questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The outcomes of this discourse indicated no significant relationship between Social Studies lecturers' use of online resources and students' performance in the course. Additionally, it was evident from the results that the extent to which Social Studies students’ use of online resources in the selected tertiary institutions in Nigeria was high. This paper, therefore, concludes that the use of online resources has no significant relationship with students' performance in Social Studies. It was recommended that university instructors should grasp a new means in the use of online resources in the classroom in order to foster a good lecturer-students interaction that would eventually results in great academic attainment of students in the course.

Highlights

Contemporary Social Studies instructors are required to use modern teaching resources such as electronic materials to make teaching effective, understandable, and comprehensive to learners
This was because the 300 and 400 level students have stayed over two years on the programme and they would have been able to take decision regarding the use of online resources by themselves and their lecturers, as well as their performance in the course
Results from this study indicate that the extent to which Social Studies students use online resources in Ondo State tertiary institutions is high

Summary

Introduction

Contemporary Social Studies instructors are required to use modern teaching resources such as electronic materials to make teaching effective, understandable, and comprehensive to learners. When learners are taught in a unique way, there is always a higher degree of comprehension and appreciation of the subject-matter learned and greater would be the attainment of the stated objectives. The adequate use of online resources can be made to achieve this purpose. Every field of knowledge has its own imperfection, and Understanding the Linkage between University Students' and Instructors Use of Online Resources and Their Academic Attainment in Social Studies. It was observed that university instructors’ use of online resources has shown intermittent influence on students’ academic outcomes in Social Studies in the past few years

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