Evaluation of Private and Public Senior Secondary Geography Teachers’ Use of ICT in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria

The study evaluated the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) among private and public senior secondary geography teachers in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria. Using the cross- sectional research design and the stratified randomized sampling method; data was collected from 20 geography teachers in private and public secondary schools using structured questionnaire. Three research questions and two hypotheses were postulated. Percentage and chi-square statistics were used to analyze and present the results of the study. Results of the study indicated that ICT was largely not applied in geography education despite the introduction of ICT policy in schools in Nigeria since 2001, resulting from unavailability of ICT hardware and software and human resources. The results also revealed that no variation existed between teachers of different qualification categories in the extent to which they employed ICT in teaching and learning. Though it was further revealed that private school teachers out-weighted their public school counterparts in the extent of ICT application, such difference was evidently not significant. It was therefore recommended that government should provide the enabling environment for ICT application in secondary schools; and teachers should avail themselves to ICT capacity building workshop and seminars organized by government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and professional associations so as to develop ICT skills and knowledge relevant for its application in teaching and learning.

Keywords: evaluation of ICT, Geography teachers, senior secondary geography education, teaching and learning geography.