Perception of Gender and Academic Qualifications on The Application of Computer-Assisted Instruction in Secondary Schools in Ukwuani LGA, Delta State

The study examined the perception of gender and academic qualifications on the application of computer-assisted instruction in secondary schools in Nigeria. The study was delimited to Ukwuani LGA, Delta state. Two research questions with two hypotheses propelled the direction of the study. A descriptive design of the survey method was utilized for the study. The population consisted of all secondary school teachers in Ukwuani LGA, Delta state. The simple random sampling technique was employed in selecting twenty (20) secondary schools from which an average of eleven teachers (11) were purposively selected from each school, constituting a total sample of 211. The instrument used to obtain information from respondents was the questionnaire titled: Computer Assisted Instruction Inventory (CAII). The items were designed by the researcher. The instrument was divided into three sections: A, B and C. Section A constituted the biographic information of respondents, B contained items on teachers' application of CAI method in teaching secondary school students and C was concerned with the aspects of the challenges facing Computer Assisted Instruction. The questionnaire adopted a 4-point Likert-type scale. The data collected were analyzed with frequency distribution, descriptive statistics, the t-test (IST) and the one-way analysis of variance. The statistics were chosen for the analyses because of their robust nature of comparing the means of two or 3 variables. Hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significant levels. The outcome of the research revealed that teachers do not readily apply CAI method in teaching secondary school students in Ukwuani LGA, Delta state. Challenges in the effective application of CAI method in teaching secondary school students in Ukwuani LGA, Delta state were indeed enormous. However, gender and academic qualifications did not have a significant effect on the use of CAI by teachers. Based on the conclusion reached, several recommendations were made which include among others that teachers’ should be ...