Students' Attitude towards the use of CBT for UTME in Rural Secondary Schools. A Case of Guyuk LGA of Adamawa State, Nigeria

Afrifa James, Hannatu .G Moses, Babando Abdulrashid Aliyu
2019 International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research  
This research investigated students' attitude towards the use of Computer Based Test (CBT) for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in rural secondary schools in Guyuk Local Government Area of Adamawa State. The population of the study comprises of 550 students in public schools who took 2018 UTME. This was randomly sampled from 5 selected public secondary schools in the study area. A five likert scale questionnaire comprises of 20 questions was used as instrument for data
more » ... n. Descriptive statistics was use to analyzed the data. The study revealed that most of the secondary schools in rural area do not have adequate facilities to teach and learn the use of computer and as a result it affected students' performance in 2018 CBT UTME. The study also revealed that CBT for UTME may hinder a brilliant candidate in the rural community, who has no computer knowledge, to gain admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The study recommended that government should make more effort to support the teaching and learning of computer education in all secondary schools especially in the rural areas. The study also recommended that JAMB should make effort to open training CBT centers at the rural areas to enable candidates familiarize themselves with the use of computer and to curb posting candidates far from home because of insufficient computer centers.
doi:10.7753/ijcatr0807.1005 fatcat:oo7ekwd3wbgcxomydf7k24ah4y