Vol. 5 No. 1 (2025): KANO JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (KaJEP)
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Impact of Teacher Motivation, Information and Communication Technology on the Effective Learning of Primary School Pupils in Sabon Gari Local Government Area Kaduna State

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  • Hauwa’u Abubakar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59479/jiaheri.v5i1.102
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Published 10/15/2025

Keywords

  • Teaching,,
  • Information,
  • Communication,
  • Learning,,
  • Pupils.

How to Cite

Abubakar, H. (2025). Impact of Teacher Motivation, Information and Communication Technology on the Effective Learning of Primary School Pupils in Sabon Gari Local Government Area Kaduna State. Journal of Institute of Africa Higher Education Research and Innovation (IAHERI), 5(1), 44–49. https://doi.org/10.59479/jiaheri.v5i1.102

Abstract

This study examined Impact of teacher Motivation and Information and Communication Technology on the Effective Learning at primary schools in Sabon Gari Local Government Area Kaduna State. The population comprised up of all public primary school teachers in Sabon Gari. The total population of public primary school teachers in Sabon Gari Local Government based on the Kaduna state school enrollment census (2020) is 2,064 out of this number, 887 are male and 1,177 are female. The sampling technique adopted for the study by the researcher is purposive sampling technique. The researcher purposively selected a sample size of 400 (200males and 200 females) to serve as the sample size in the study. The teachers that made up the sample were given the instruments which took about 45 minutes to fill. The instrument was self-constructed by the researcher and was a structured questionnaire titled “Teacher Motivation, Information Communication Technology and Effective Learning Questionnaire (TMICTELQ). The instrument consists of 40 items rated on a four-point response format ‘1= Strongly Agree, 2 = Agree, 3 = disagree, 4 = Strongly disagree’. A test re-test reliability was conducted and the instrument reported Cronbach’s alpha of .78. The instrument was validated by five experts in the department of Educational Psychology, Federal College of Education, Zaria.  The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using the Pearson r using the IBM SPSS version 23. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were put forward; Teachers should always be motivated by all and sundry that constitute the educational sector so as to make them put the best for maximum learning of the pupils in primary school and Government at the three tiers should as a matter of urgency provide all the necessary ICT equipment, apparatus and materials needed for imparting and facilitating knowledge.

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