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Challenges of ICT Students

This study explored the impact of internet access on the academic performance of senior high school students in Cape Coast, Ghana. A questionnaire was administered to 105 students, and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-tests. The results showed that internet access positively influences academic performance, as students with internet access showed higher improvement than those without. However, different types of internet use did not impact performance. It was recommended that school ICT labs be better equipped and students be trained to use online resources to support their studies.

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Challenges of ICT Students

This study explored the impact of internet access on the academic performance of senior high school students in Cape Coast, Ghana. A questionnaire was administered to 105 students, and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-tests. The results showed that internet access positively influences academic performance, as students with internet access showed higher improvement than those without. However, different types of internet use did not impact performance. It was recommended that school ICT labs be better equipped and students be trained to use online resources to support their studies.

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Challenges of ICT Students

This Study explored the usage of the internet and its impact on the academic performance of Senior
High School (SHS) students in the Cape Coast Metropolis. A questionnaire was used to gather data from
105 second-and third-year students through random sampling and was then analyzed using descriptive
statistics and an independent samples t-test. The result revealed that Internet outlets for SHS students
include school ICT labs, mobile phones, internet facilities for families, and public internet cafes.
Furthermore, internet access influences academic standards among students, as those with internet
access have shown a higher improvement in academic performance than those without. Different
internet use, on the other hand, has no impact on academic performance, as revealed by the results.
Similarly, the presence of several sources of internet connectivity does not guarantee immediate access
to all of them. Therefore, it was recommended that the Heads of Institutions should liaise with other
stakeholders to provide internet facilities with management support. It was also recommended that to
support student research, the School ICT Laboratories should be well equipped with internet facilities
and students should be taught how to use search engines to search online for academic materials. This
is vital because the provision of school internet facilities plays a very important role in enhancing
academic performance.

Experiences of ICT Students

A report on ICT in education in Turkey shows significant development of ICT use in teachers' colleges.
However, teachers lack more advanced competencies in the use of specific pedagogical content
knowledge (Akdur, 2017).

A lack of specified pedagogical content knowledge and technological know-how among in-service and
pre-service teachers hinders the provision of quality education and hence hampers teacher professional
development. Teacher professional development in the area of ICT for teaching and learning should be
intertwined with teacher education programmes (Albion & Tondeur, 2018; Sahito & Vaisanen, 2017).

Benefits of ICT

According to the opinion of various experts, it serves a definite purpose for each individual. Considering
the fact ‘Efficiency and Equality in Education’, the present competitive world requires enhancement in
the learning process for betterment in education. ICT enabled learning is considered as a milestone in
the history of growth of education sector in India. It is the system which comprise of a wide variety of
products capable of being stored, retrieved, manipulated and transformed electronically through a
digital platform (Abilasha R, 2016).

Coping Mechanism

In recent years, the importance of ICT in education has been globally recognized at various levels of
education as a pedagogical and instrumental tool to support teaching and learning (Warioba et al.,
2022).
A study by Gudmundsdottir and Vasbø (2017) reveals that the instructional use of ICT is fundamentally
concerned with more learning that is active.

Köksal and Köseoğlu (2019) reveal that ICT acts as a source of motivation for students in
increasing efficiency and effectiveness in learning.

The use of ICT globally has brought significant changes that affect the provision of education and
curriculum completion, particularly in teachers' colleges (European Schoolnet, 2020; Joel & Mungwabi,
2016; Almerich et al., 2016). It should be noted that ICT adoption in educational settings has promoted
the provision of quality learning tools and learner-centered curriculum completion. As a result,
instructors use several ICT facilities, services and infrastructures to deliver state-of-the-art curriculum
content and design demand-driven instructional activities to be used either synchronously or
asynchronously. For instance, concerning the developed world, the European Schoolnet’s report of 2017
states there is a high level of ICT use in educational activities (European Schoolnet, 2018).

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