RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UTILIZATION OF ICT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL

Abstract

This research study was conducted to find out relationship between utilization of information and communication technologies and achievement of students during the study at secondary level. The basic purpose of this study is to find out the status of availability of ICTs resources in public secondary schools, also to determine the extent of utilization of available ICTs resources for teachers of computer science at secondary level and to find out the relationship between the utilization of ICTs and the academic achievement of students at this stage. For this purpose, 200 IT teachers and head teachers of secondary school’s levels are randomly selected to collect the information. Data were collected through the questionnaire from the respondents. Data was analyzed by using SPSS tool to find out percentage of collected data also find the correlation to check the relation between utilization of ICTs and academic achievements of the students. The results were shows that the calculated value of correlation coefficient r, is +0.694, so we conclude that there is a positive and moderate strong relationship between the utilization of ICTs and academic performance of students at secondary level.