Investigation into performance expectancy, Effort Expectancy and acceptances to use Google classroom for instruction among College of Education Lectures in Niger State

Abstract

The study investigated college of education lecturers’ performance-expectancy, effort-expectancy, and acceptance to use Google Classroom for classroom instruction. In Niger State, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was employed for the study and the population for the study was 1183 college of education lecturers from the two colleges o education in Niger State. Research advisor (2006) was used to obtain a sample size of 148 and purposive sampling was used to select the respondents. Data were obtained using a questionnaire with two major sections, section two has 23 items which were subdivided into three sections titled “instrument for investigating lecturers’ performance-expectancy, effort-expectancy, and acceptance to use Google classroom in colleges of education in Niger state” which was validated by 2 experts in Educational Technology. The instrument was trial tested on 20 colleges of education lecturers. Cronbach Alpha statistical formula was used to establish the reliability coefficient of 0.85, 0.83 and 0.78. From the findings, college of education lecturers’ performance-expectancy, effort-expectancy, and acceptance to use Google Classroom for the educational purpose was positive. In addition, there was no significant difference between male and female college of education lecturers’ performance-expectancy, effort-expectancy, and 'acceptance to use Google Classroom for classroom instruction in Niger State. Among other recommendations raised was that: College of education lecturers should integrate Google Classroom in their educational activities.