Impact Of Information Communication Technology (ict) On Secondary School Education In Anambra State
[WITH A PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OGBARU LGA]

CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter comprises the procedures and methods by which this study is carried out, which include the following:
RESEARCH DESIGN
The research design used by a researcher is the survey method which is one of the best available research design used for obtaining useful relevant information. It is used especially as a means of data gathering and assessment. More so, the design of this study is a descriptive survey which tries to investigate an event in the natural setting without the researcher trying to manipulate the dependent and independent variables.
 AREA OF THE STUDY
Ogbaru Local Government Area is a town that is located at about 20 kilometers from Onitsha metropolis. Its name was Ogbahu which means a town that the river runs beside. It shares boundaries with delta and river state. It has its local government headquarters in Atani. At about 90 years ago, Ogbahu was so hard for the visitors of the town especially the white investors to pronounce. So the white men will always pronounce it putting “r” in place of “h”. It was from then that its name was changed to Ogbaru. Ogbaru people are traditional fishers and yam farmers. Their territorial land is the river that runs beside it. Ogbaru has 16 communities which are;

The schools that exist in Ogbaru which was selected for this study are:
•    Victory comprehensive secondary school, Atani which designed their
curriculum like; Sowing, Barbing and Molding of clay pots etc. The school is a mixed school.
•    Community Secondary school,Atani
This is the first secondary school that was installed by the government in Ogbaru Local government Area during the era of Nnamdi Azikiwe as the first president of Nigeria. The school is located at the boundary between Atani and Ohita in Ogbaru Local Government Area. The school has produced Doctors, professors, lawyers and men of substance in Nigeria. Their curriculum follow suit with the curriculum of other community secondary schools in Anambra State. The school is a mixed school.
•    Ogbaru High School, Ogbakuba.
Ogbaru High school was founded by Prof.Ben Nwabueze, a former Minister of Education in Nigeria in 1993 during the interim resume of Ernest Shenekon. He found this school in other to draw education to the doorstep of his people. It was signed into law as a government secondary school few months later.
Their curriculum is also same with other Anambra government schools. The school is also a mixed school.  
The areas where these schools are located are rural areas and the implication of this rural setting is that the schools are remote and in need of speedy development as far as ICT is concerned.
The three schools are all mixed schools (Boys and Girls schools).