Influence of School Environment and Technology Application on Quality of Teaching and Learning Library and Information Science in South-South Nigeria

Judith O. Imoniwe

Abstract


The study was carried out to determine the influence of school environment and technology application on quality of teaching and learning Library and Information Science in South-south Nigeria. Two research questions were answered and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for study was 64 Library and Information Science Lecturers from four public universities in South-South Nigeria. Due to manageable size of the population, the entire 64 lecturers were involved as respondents for the study, hence, there was no sampling. The instrument for data collection was 25-item structured questionnaire titled: “School Environment and Technology Application in Library and Information Science Questionnaire (SETALISQ). The instrument was face-validated by three experts while the reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach’s Alpha reliability technique which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.87. Due to close monitoring of the data collection process, all the 64 copies of the questionnaire administered were completely responded to and retrieved representing 100% rate of return. Data collated were analysed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions while t-test statistics was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study identified 10 influences of school environment and 15 influences of technology application on quality of teaching and learning Library and Information Science in universities in South-South Nigeria. The study therefore recommend adequate provision of necessary technological gargets, instructional facilities and comfortable learning environment by the Government and school management for effective instructional delivery in LIS in universities and other tertiary institutions in south-south and Nigeria in particular.


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