TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS USING FACEBOOK FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF PHYSICS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, IN MINNA METROPOLIS

Abstract

The study is investigated the Teacher and Students' Attitude Towards Using Facebook in Teaching and Learning of Physics in Senior Secondary School, in Minna Metropolis. Three research questions and three hypothesis set to guide the study. A descriptive research survey design was adopted. The population of the study comprises of three (3) Senior Secondary school in Minna Metropolis, Ahmadu Bahago and Government Day and Father O’Connell Senior Secondary school. The sample size of one hundred and eighty-seven (185) participants was considered. Which contain one hundred and seventy-five (175) student and ten 10 teachers. A random sampling technique was employ in the distribution from the entire population. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages were used in analyzing demographic variables, mean and standard deviation were used to analyzed the research questions while the t-test will be used to test the stated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the students and teachers agreed to have being aware of the usage of Facebook as social media platforms for connecting with friends, Facebook is one of the most used media of communication for the dissemination of information by student and teachers. The findings of the study also depicted that teacher use Facebook to maintain and instruct us by joining academic groups, teacher does not communicate with us via Facebook, use Facebook to share my assignment with my fellow student. The findings of the study unveiled the use Facebook for reading makes learning easy and accessible, Facebook usage for reading has positive effect on my academic performance. The findings of the study revealed that there is no significance difference in teacher and student responses on level of exposure towards using Facebook in teaching and learning of physics in senior secondary school, in Minna metropolis with p-value of 0.05. with p-value of 0.09. The findings on research hypothesis three depict that there is no significance difference in teacher and student responses on exposure to Facebook and academic performance with p =0.07. The researcher thereby recommendations that; Students should further be enlightened on significance, efficient and effective usage of Facebook sites for reading or learning purpose. The institutions should also encourage the use of ICT related tools for instructional delivery to enhance the usage for Facebook for learning rather than social activities.