Abstract:
The study investigated the extent of use of social software among pre-service science teachers in the federal universities in the South-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The population consists of all final year pre-service science teachers in the federal universities in the south-east geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Accidental random sampling technique was used to sample 592 final year science education student otherwise known as pre-service science teachers. The sample consists of 279 males and 314 females. The instrument for the study named Application of Social Software Questionnaire (ASSQ) consists of a 30-item questionnaire developed from the ten major classes of social software based on Mejias, 2005, classification. The instrument was validated by three experts in educational technology, measurement and evaluation and vocational teacher education. Crombach Alpha was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which was 0.82. Two research questions and one null hypothesis guided the
