The Effect Of Information Visualization On Teaching And Learning Basic Technology - 2

The study attempted to investigate the effect of information visualization on teaching and learning basic technology in the Junior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study equally reviewed some important and extensive literatures under sub-headings. The descriptive research survey design was applied in the assessment of respondents’ opinions towards the subject-matter. In this study also, five research questions and five null hypotheses were formulated and tested with the applications of the mean (X) and standard deviation (SD) for the analyses of the research questions and the questionnaire responses from the selected respondents, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and the independent t-test Statistical tools for the null hypotheses at 0.05 significance level.

 A total of 100 (one hundred) respondents, 50 (fifty) male and 50 (fifty) female teachers were selected for this study. The results of the study found out that: Hypothesis one is a significant effect on the effect of Information visualization tools on students’ performance in science subjects at the Junior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria; Hypothesis two indicated that there is a significant difference between the academic performance of students taught by teachers who are computer literate and those who are not literate; Hypothesis three showed that there is a significant relationship between the availability of information visualization tools and teachers’ effectiveness in the Junior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria; Hypothesis four revealed that there is a significant relationship between the level of awareness of the use of information visualization among science teachers and teaching effectiveness in junior secondary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria and finally,hypothesis five showed that there is a significant relationship between teachers’ access to Information visualization tools and mastery of subject matter among science teachers at the Junior Secondary Schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. 

Based on the analyses of data, the following recommendation was made by the researcher that students should develop interests in the use of the information visualization tools available in the schools for their daily teaching and learning processes in the basic technology subject at the junior secondary school level in Lagos State, Nigeria and that teachers should ensure that they are literate on the use of the information visualization tools in the teaching and learning processes in the schools in Lagos State, Nigeria. This is because, if teachers in basic technology are all literate in the use of computer and other related information visualization tools, they would be able to carry out effective teaching and learning activities in the subject and in the schools in the state.

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