The perception of Ghanaian senior high school teachers and students on the integration of information and communication technology into mathematics teaching and learning

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find teachers and students perceptions on the integration of ICT into Mathematics teaching and learning in the Ghanaian Senior High Schools and discover the potential barriers hindering effective ICT integration. The population comprised all teachers and students in the Greater Accra Region. A simple random sampling was used to select the teachers and the students. Two public mixed and one private mixed school from the Ga South Municipality were purposefully selected. A total of twenty five (25) teachers and sixty (60) students were selected from the three schools. The research design for the study was mixed method research design. Questionnaires were administered personally to both the teacher and the students as well interview. SPSS version 16 was used in generating the various outputs for analysis. The findings revealed that 95.8% of the teachers have not been using computers in their classroom instruction even though they have access to computers in their schools. It was also discovered that 83.3% of the schools do not have specialized software for teaching Mathematics installed on the computers in their laboratories. However, it was found out that most of the students had good perception concerning the use of computers and graphic calculators and were convinced that are good tools for learning Mathematics. It is therefore recommended that specialized software for teaching and learning Mathematics be installed on the computers in the various Senior High Schools laboratories to enable the Mathematics teachers in the SHS have access to them and use them in their teaching.