Influence of Technological Tools on Instructional Delivery of Business Studies for Enhancing Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Abia State
This study investigated Influence of Technological Tools on Instructional Delivery of Business Studies for Enhancing Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Abia State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. A total of 246 Business Studies teachers which comprised 94 and 58 Business Studies teachers from public and private selected secondary schools. inAbia state constituted the population for the study using proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. The instrument for data collection was 18-items researchers developed questionnaire titled: “Influence of Technological Tools on Instructional Delivery of Business Studies Questionnaire (ITTIDBSQ)”. The instrument had two clusters with 4-point response scales of 20 question items. The face validation of the instrument was carried out by three experts. The stability aspects of the reliability of the instrument were determined using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient statistic which yielded 0.82 and 0.79, respectively Mean was used to answer the two research questions raised for the study and standard deviations was used to determine the closeness or homogeneity of the responses while t- test statistic was used to test the two null hypotheses that guided the study at 0.05 level of significant. The results showed among others that both the Public and Private school Business studies teachers affirmed that education tablet influence Business Studies instructional delivery in enhancing academic performance of secondary schools’ students to a high extent. Based on the results, the study recommended among others that Business Studies teachers should be aware of the influence of technological tools especially the education tablet and interactive whiteboard as it enhances the instructional delivery of the subject and as well enable the students acquire technological skills.
Keywords: Technological tools, Instructional delivery, Business studies, Academicperformance, Education tablet, Interactive whiteboard
