Efficacy of Educational Technology Centers on Tertiary Education Student’s Acquisition of Technological Skills in Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education Owerri Imo State

Abstract

This paper investigated efficacy of the Center for Educational Technology on Tertiary Education Students Acquisition of Technological skills in Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri Imo State. The population of this study is 8,000 which comprised 3000 males and 5,000 female students in Alvan Ikoku Federal University Of Education Owerri. Stratified random sampling technique was used to obtain 200 respondents which made up of 110 females and 90 male students from 4 departments in Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education Owerri.  Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Instrument used for data collection was researcher developed questionnaire “titled, efficacy of The Center for Educational Technology on Tertiary Education Students Acquisition of Technological skills in Alvan Ikoku University of Education Owerri Imo State was used,” with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument is reliable to be used for this study. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data while t test of independent was used to test the hypothesis. The findings from this study reveals that there are varied skills students acquire from the use of instructional media in the centers for educational technology in higher institutions in Nigeria. It was recommended from this study that educational technologists, specialists and technicians from the center for educational technology should protect educational technology instructional material against dusts and ensure proper maintenance and storage of educational technology materials in Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education Owerri Imo state.