Abstract:
The major thrust of this study is to determine the skills required for ICT capacity building as perceived by Business Education teachers in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. In doing this, three (3) purposes identifying 3 ICT tools was proposed as follows – multi-media projection skills, internet skills and word/data processing skill. On the process, three (3) research questions and three (3) hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Background information was provided in chapter one which explains ICT skills as having the basic understanding of what computer and other ICT tools are and how they can be used as resource materials to facilitate effective instructional delivery.
And capacity building as activities which strengthens the knowledge, abilities, skills and behavior of individuals and improve institutional structures and processes such that the organization can effectively meet its mission and goals in a sustainable way. Chapter two was devoted to an indepth discussion of related literature under conceptual framework, theoretical framework, related empirical literature and summary. Survey research design was used for the study and the population was the 137 Business Education teachers in the 4 Federal and 6 State Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. A structured questionnaire containing 89 items was used for data collection. The response options of the questionnaire were arranged under a five-point rating scale of Very Highly Required (VHR), Highly Required (HR), Averagely Required (AR); Fairly Required (FR) and Not Required (NR) for skills required. The validity and reliability of the instrument was carried out and Cronbach Alpha Co-efficient of 0.991 was obtained. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the three research question while t-test was used to analyze the three hypotheses. The mean was interpreted in relation of real limits of numbers assigned to the response options. Statistical package for social sciences was used to ensure accuracy of the data analyzed. The result of the data analysis revealed that all the items presented in the questionnaire were required for ICT capacity building as perceived by Business Education teachers. The three null hypotheses were upheld stating that there is no statistical significant different between the mean responses of teacher in both federal and state Colleges of Education. It was recommended among other things that Business Education teachers should be retrained from time to time to acquire the ICT skills necessary for using ICT tools for instructional delivery.
