MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF ICT RESOURCES FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS IN BAYELSA STATE

The paper focused on management and utilization of ICT resources for effective teaching and learning in vocational schools in Bayelsa State. There are three research questions and three hypotheses formulated to guide the study. Design of the study was descriptive survey. Descriptive survey was employed for the study. The population of the study comprised 346 teachers (227 male and 119 female) in the vocational schools in Bayelsa State while 237 teachers (145 male and 92 female) were drawn as sample for the study using random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire which was face and content validated by three experts from the Department of Educational Management, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach alpha with an index of 0.92. Out of the 346 copies of questionnaire administered, 318 copies representing 91.9% were retrieved. The research questions raised were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using z-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study that teachers accessed and utilized ICT resources for teaching and learning but the there was no adequate maintenance of these resources. It was recommended in line with the findings of the study that ICT resources in the school should be subjected to routine maintenance while obsolete devices should be replaced immediately for effective teaching and learning in these schools.