SURVEY OF DETERMINANTS OF THE UTILIZATION OF ICT FACILITIES FOR INSTRUCTION IN LAGOS STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The study is a survey of determinants of the utilization of ICT facilities for instruction in Lagos state secondary schools. It employed the survey research design with a total sample of three hundred and sixty-two secondary school students and one hundred and twelve teachers. The sample was selected from five private and five public schools. The data obtained for the study was analyzed with simple percentages and the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient. The result shows that utilization and actual usage of ICT facilities in education have a strong positive relationship with perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, facilitating conditions, social influence among teachers and students respectively.  Based on the findings, it was recommended that the use of ICT facilities should be encouraged in schools, that effective ICT training and sensitization programmes should be organized for teachers that necessary ICT and infrastructural facilities should be provided by stakeholders (proprietress/Proprietor, Government etc.) and leadership supports by school managers and awards/ incentives should be given to teacher(s).