Availability, Readiness and Utilization of Smartphones for Learning among Biology Students in Colleges of Education Gombe State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The Study investigated Availability, Readiness and Utilization of Smartphones among Biology students of Colleges of Education in Gombe State, Nigeria. The study adopted a Descriptive Survey research design. To guide the study, five specific objectives, five research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level. The population of the study was 392 NCE I, II, III Students from Biology Department - o F School of Science Education in the two Colleges of Education in Gombe State. One hundred and eighty-two Students constitute the sample size for the study using research advisor sample size for determining table. The instrument for generating data for the study was a checklist and twelve researcher's designed questionnaire which was validated by two experts in Educational Technology Department from Federal university of Technology Minna and one expert in Counselling, Psychology Department from Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai Niger State. Pilot test was conducted and vhile mean below 2..50 w,.1; rul oc the study hypothesis one revealed that all Biology Students in Colleges of Education has phones, hypotheses two revealed that College Students smartphones are ready for Utilization and respondents agreed -.with 3.06 Grand mean score. findings reveal that respondents agreed that smartphones are Utilized thr learning with Grand mean score of 3.04. the findings also reveal that there is no significance difference in Gender of Readiness and Utilization of srnartphone for learning. Among the recommendations is Service providers should reduce internet service tariffs afford and use mobile Internet services with ease. so that students can af