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INVESTIGATE THE AWARENESS, ACCESS, LITERACY, AND COMPETENCY OF ICT FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES AMONG HND STUDENTS OF SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC NASARAWA, NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Femi Samson Oyedepo, Ramalan Baba Usman, Mohammed Aji

Abstract


The study investigates the awareness. Access, Literacy, and Competency of ICT for Research purposes among HND students of the School of Information Technology, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa state. A survey research design was used for the study. A structured questionnaire titled; ―Level of ICT Awareness, Access, Literacy, and Competency ((LICT- AALC)) among the students‖ was used as an instrument for data collection. The internal consistency of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha and a reliability coefficient of 0.537 for awareness, 0.660 for accessibility, 0.882 for literacy, and 0.888 for competency. The overall reliability estimate of 0.934 was obtained. Data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The results showed that most students are partially aware of ICT facilities for the conduct of research work in the School of Information Technology, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa state, although there was variation in the awareness in the four departments. Furthermore, the study found that most students have partial access to the ICT facilities for the conduct of research work in the School of Information Technology, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa. It was recommended that the Polytechnic Management should create more awareness of the available ICT facilities in the institution to its HND students for research purposes. This would in one way increase the number of HND students who use the ICT facilities for research daily.

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Awareness;access;literacy;competency;research

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