PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' ACCESSIBILITY AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS E-LEARNING RESOURCES FOR TEACHING CHEMISTRY IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGER STATE

Abstract

This study examined Pre-service Teachers Accessibility and Attitude towards Elearning Resources for teaching chemistry in Colleges of Education in Niger State. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised 3500 pre-service teachers (1728 males and 1772 female), systematic random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 350 pre-service teachers (167 males and 183 females) for the study. The research instruments used for this study were questionnaires titled Questionnaire on Pre-service Teachers Accessibility to E-learning Resources for teaching of chemistry (QOPTATER) and Questionnaire on Pre-service Teachers Attitude towards E-learning Resources for teaching of chemistry (QOPTATOER). The instruments were validated by two experts from Federal University of Technology Minna. The reliability coefficients of the instruments obtained were 0.926 for (QOPTATER) and 0.826 for (QOPTATOER) using Cronbach alpha. Data collected from the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics of (mean and standard deviation) to answer research questions and the null hypothesis were tested using inferential statistics of Mann Whitney (U-test) at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the study revealed that pre-service teachers had positive attitude towards Elearning resources irrespective of their gender. Based on the findings, it was recommended that educators in teacher training institutions should make proper use of E-learning resources in their lecture delivery to enable pre-service teachers benefit from it.