THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The pattern of teaching and learning process today is expected to shift from the conventional method to a more dynamic and flexible one, which is learner-centred (Ezekoka and Okoli, 2012). This learner-centred approach makes students to influence the content, activities, materials and pace of learning, which places them in the centre of the learning process and enhances independent learning (Collins and O‟Brien, 2003). However, despite the glaring relevance of ICT in education, coupled with the huge capital investment of both Federal and State governments through ICT driven project known as “school net” Adomi, (2006) and Okebukola (2004) and donations from Non Governmental Organizations to Secondary schools in Nigeria, some teachers are still reluctant, ineffective and unproductive in using ICT facilities to improve students’‟ academic performance. It is on this note that the researcher intends to investigate the impact of information and communication technology on student’s academic performance.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main objective of the study is to ascertain the impact of ICT on student academic performance. For the successful completion of the study, the researcher intends to achieve the following sub objective
i) To ascertain the impact of ICT on secondary school students academic performance.
ii) To ascertain the relationship between the use of ICT and the conventional approach in teaching and learning in secondary schools.
iii) To investigate the role of ICT on students academic performance
iv) To ascertain the effect of ICT on the learning culture of secondary school students.

1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
For the successful completion of the study; the following research hypotheses are formulated;
H0: information communication technology has no impact on student’s academic performance.
H1: information communication technology has a significant impact on student’s academic performance
H02: there is no relationship between the use of ICT and the use of the conventional approach in teaching and students academic performance
H2: there is a significant relationship between the use of ICT and the use of the conventional approach in teaching and students academic performance

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It is believed that at the completion of the study, the will be of great importance to the ministry of education in formulating policies and ensuring that secondary schools adopt and implement the use of information communication technology in public secondary schools.
The study will also be of great importance to the management of public secondary schools as the study will serve as a guide to the management to explore the benefit of ICT in teaching and learning in public secondary the study will also be beneficial to researchers who intends to embark on study in similar topic as the study will serve as a guide to their study. Finally the study will be beneficial to academia’s students and the general public schools.