期刊名称:International Journal of Social Sciences and Education
印刷版ISSN:2227-393X
电子版ISSN:2223-4934
出版年度:2012
卷号:2
期号:2
出版社:Federal College of Education
摘要:This article reports on a study carried out to determine ICT use and information searching activities among the secondary school students. This study provides an understanding on how the secondary school students used the ICT for various purposes including information seeking activities. There were 920 secondary school students nationwide whose schools were randomly selected involved in this study. A questionnaire was used to determine their demographic background, information sources preference and other ICT-related aspects. Among the findings were that students preferred to use non-digital sources of information and Internet surfing was the most popular activity. The students were also not very competent in using the ICT. It was recommended that more efforts to be done to ensure that students use ICT frequently that focused more on the information seeking activities to develop their information literacy skills
关键词:ICT use; ICT skills; information literacy skills; secondary school students