Abstract:
Information communication technology is a technology that has influenced the entire world in unimaginable ways. There is no field of life that does not employ this technology in order to facilitate activities in such fields. The study, therefore, aims at identifying postgraduate students’ level of ICT resources utilization in research projects in VTE programmes in the Universities in Enugu State. Six research questions and three hypotheses were formulated (all derived from the literature review) in order to carry out this study. Descriptive statistic, mean, standard deviation and t-test statistical tool were employed for analyzing data. The sample consisted of 268 respondents (118 postgraduate students of 1997/1998 set in the Vocational Teacher Education Programme in UNN and 150 postgraduate students of the same 1997/1998 set in Vocational Teacher Education Programme in ESUT). A structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts. Cronbach Alpha formula was used to establish the internal consistency of the instrument. Based on data, it was found out that the level of basic ICT skills possessed by postgraduate students of VTE programme in Universities in Enugu State is above average. This also applies to their level of ICT resources utilization in literature review. Postgraduate students of VTE in these universities have a very low level of ICT resources utilization in proposal presentation. The study also showed that postgraduate students’ level of ICT resources utilization in research documentation is high. Again, it is also evident from the study that postgraduate students of VTE in the Universities in Enugu state do not utilize ICT resources in data collection in research projects while their level of utilization of ICT resources in data analysis is on the average. Consequently it was recommended among others that, School administrators should ensure that postgraduate students are provided with ICT resources for them to be able to have access to those resources as some of the students will not be able to procure some of the ICT resources.
