Secondary School Students Competence and Perception on Classroom Usage of Interactive White Board in Chemistry in Lagos State

Abstract

This research assessed senior Secondary school students’ perception and competency on classroom usage of interactive white board for learning chemistry in Lagos State. It adopted a descriptive survey approach where purposive sampling techniques were used to select 150 chemistries from senior secondary schools 2 and 3. Two hypotheses were tested and both were rejected. The scope of the study was within the confinement of the six (6) educational districts of Lagos State. A researcher-designed questionnaire that reflected on the competency and perception of SS2 and SS 3 students in using IWB for learning chemistry based on class and gender were used as the research instrument. A descriptive analysis was used to explain the demographic data and the use of means and standard deviation was employed to answer research questions while inferential statistics of T-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 significant levels. The results revealed that there was no significant difference in senior secondary schools ‘student’s competency in using IWB in learning chemistry in Lagos State secondary schools based on class. Also, there was no significant difference between the perceptions of senior secondary school students based on gender. Findings recommended among others that the government should make provision for enough IWB for the secondary schools also teachers and students should be trained in order to be adept with emerging technologies in order to meet up with the technological challenges in education.