Estimating the Percentage Mediation of ICT Utilisation on Information Literacy and Mathematics Performance in Colleges of Education, Ghana

Abstract

Maxwell Seyrama Kumah, Leonard Kwame Edekor and Samuel Abotoworo

Introduction: Student teachers’ (ST) mathematics performance (MP) is still an issue of concern in college. Meanwhile, ICT integration and utilisation has been a policy for almost a decade. This is to enable tertiary learners to breakthrough learning struggles particularly in mathematics.

Aim: This paper aims to model the relationship between student teachers’ interest in information literacy (IIL) and MP moderated by ICT utilisation (ICTU).

Methods: Analytic survey design was adopted using IIL and ICTU Questionnaire and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) to collect data. Level 200 student teachers were purposely selected with a random sampling technique to obtain 526 student teachers from two Colleges of Education in the Hohoe Municipality, Volta region.

Result: It was revealed that, majority 138 (26.2%) had moderate interest in IIL while only 47(8.9%) of them were extremely interested. Similarly, the majority 135(25.7%) indicated that ICTU was somewhat helpful while only 41(7.8%) expressed that it was very helpful. There was no significant influence of gender and programs of study on MP. There was a significant positive correlation between ICTU and IIL and for MP and IIL, there was a significant inverse correlation directly. The result also shows that in IIL inversely predict student teachers’ MP relationship but not moderated by ICTU.

Conclusion: The findings suggest that student teachers who show high IIL are more likely to perform less in mathematics and vice versa.

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