ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY'S SKILLS OF PRE-SERVICE SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined Information and Communication Technology's (ICT's) skills of Social Studies(SS) prospective teachers in South-west (SW), Nigeria. Sample used are from two Colleges of Education (CE) in SW, Nigeria. One hundred and eighty six (186) Part Two CE SS Students participated in the research. Two research questions were raised and answered in the study. The results showed that prospective SS Teachers rated themselves high in ICT skills while they performed very poor in ICT Laboratory Skill Test (LST). 91.30% of them scored below average in LST and 8.70% got average score. This indicates that the prospective educators were very poor in performing basic ICT tasks. The study recommended that ICT contents that require basic ICT skills should be incorporated into NCE SS curriculum.