Lecturers’ Acceptance and use of ICT for the Sustenance of Research Supervision Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

This study was carried out to ascertain lecturers’ acceptance and use of Information and Communication Technology ( ICT), for the sustenance of research supervision amidst Covid-19 pandemic in Anambra State. Two research questions gave direction to the study while two hypotheses were tested. Survey research design was utilized for the study. The sample for the study consisted of 450 lecturers obtained through accidental and stratified sampling techniques from two public Universities in Anambra state. Lecturers’ Acceptance of ICT for Research Supervision amidst Covid-19 (LAICTRSC) and Lecturers’ Use of ICT for Research Supervision amidst Covid-19 (LUICTRSC) were used as instruments for data collection after validation by three experts and reliability coefficients of 0.84 and 0.80 respectively, determined using Cronbach Alpha technique. Data were analysed using mean,standard deviation and t-test. The findings revealed that much as lecturers have accepted ICT for research supervision, ICT devices were generally used to a low extent for research supervision amidst Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the findings of the study showed that while a significant difference existed between the mean scores of arts/humanities and science lecturers’ acceptance of ICT devices for the sustenance of research supervision in favour of the arts/humanities lecturers, no significant differences existed between them in terms of the utilization of the ICT devices. It was therefore recommended that university authorities should organize seminars and workshop for lecturers on the need and strategies for utilizing ICT devices adequately for effective supervision amidst Covid-19 pandemic.

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The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].

This work did not receive any external funding.