INVESTIGATION OF LECTURERS’ SELF-EFFICACY ON THEIR BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION TO USE DIGITAL CURRICULUM AMONG COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NIGERSTATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated lecturers’ self-efficacy on their behavioural intention, in using digital curriculum among Colleges of Education, Niger State. The study has six objectives and corresponding hypotheses. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Two Colleges of Education in Niger State were selected for the study with a sample size of 234 (148 Male and 86 Female). Reliability coefficient obtained for Behavioural intention, Competence, and self efficacy were 0.76., 0.77, and 0.86 respectively. The questionnaire was developed, validated, and used for the study. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviations while the hypotheses were tested using ANOVA and t-test on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 23. The study revealed that work experience influenced lecturers’ behavioural intention to use digital curriculum among Colleges of Education, Niger State; this was shown in the grand mean score of 3.36 for 1-10 Years of Experience; grand mean score of 3.11 for11-20 Years of Experience; grand mean score of 3.36 for 21-30 Years of Experience and grand mean score of 3.14 for 31-40 Years of Experience. This shows that lecturers are ready to use digital curriculum to enhance their teaching activities in Colleges of Education in Niger State. But work experience does not have influence on lecturers’ Competence level and lecturers’ Self-efficacy towards the use of digital curriculum among Colleges of Education, Niger State with F (3,230)=1.402, p=0.243, p >0.05 and F (3,230)=0.921 p=0.431, p >0.05. Finding revealed that gender has no influence on lecturers’ behavioural intention and competence level in the use of digital curriculum among Colleges of Education, Niger State. based on gender. But male lectures have higher level of self-efficacy than the female lecturers towards the use of digital curriculum among Colleges of Education, Niger State based on gender. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Students, lecturers and institutions as a whole should key into the use of digital technologies to help students become relevant in their fields of study, solve problems within the educational sector and to catch up with the growing digital societies. Regular workshops, conferences, seminars or on-the job training should be organised by the Ministry of Education and the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) to update and up skill lecturers knowledge and skills in content delivery and government should provide adequate digital curriculum tools for better academic achievement of students that prepares them for global citizenship.