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The study provides, a ‘Survey Questionnaire’ that was developed to investigate ICT usage/habits, perceived ICT competency, and related ICT issues that affect University students and Lecturers at Njala University. A descriptive survey method was used because it allows the researcher to pose a series of questions to willing participants, summarize their responses with percentages, frequency counts, or more rigorous statistics, and draw inferences about a particular population from the responses of the selected sample size. The main focus of this research is to ascertain Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Lab Usage/Habits at COMAHS. More specifically, this research aims at assessing the user habits of digital media, primarily computers, tablets, smart phones and internet in order to facilitate teaching and learning at this tertiary institution. The primary data collection instrument for the study is going to be a survey questionnaire: Students and Lecturers ICT Lab ‘Usage/Habit’ and Perceived Competencies inventory adapted from Bassey et al. (2007). The questionnaire was structured into nine sections. Section A elicited demographic details such a department, gender, age, and academic level of the respondents. Section B examined the level of ICT usage habits of respondents. Section C required the respondents to rate their perceived ICT access to computers. Section D required the respondents to rate ICT usage and ICT tools. Section E examined the level of sustainability and availability of ICT resources. Section F required the respondents to rate or assessed the significance of ICT. Section G required the respondents to rate the use of ICT at home and other places. Section H required the respondent to rate the use of ICT and activities NOT related and RELATED to University work. And Section I examined the ICT for learning as key platform for educational development. The reliability of the instrument was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha formula. The data collected was mainly presented by the use of quantitative statistical methods. Data from the open-ended questions were analyzed by indicating the magnitude of responses viz-a-viz the total number of respondents to a particular option in a question. The responses from the structured questions were computed into frequency counts, percentages and charts. All the responses were summarized and tabulated for easy presentation, analysis and interpretation. However, the researcher further provides some recommendations that will facilitate the implementation of the research work. |
