STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON ZOOM INSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOLOGY IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA: IMPLICATION FOR POST COVID-19 INSTRUCTION

Abstract

This study investigated students’ view on zoom instruction technology on the achievement ofB iology education students in College of Education Akwanga and Hill College of Education, Gwanje, Akwanga. Four research questions and two hypotheses were developed to guide the study.

Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was made up of all Biology Education students in NCE I& II of two Colleges of Education with population of 234 and 110 from the two colleges respectively, totalling 372 students that offer Biology education.
Simple random sampling technique was used to select 108 students from the population to respond to the questionnaires. Biology Education Students Zoom Instruction questionnaires (BESZIQ) with 20 items was the instruments used. Cronbach alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument that yielded reliability of 0.89. Simple percentage was used to answer the questions while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using independent sample t-test statistics. The result showed that the Biology education students were not sufficiently
prepared to use zoom learning platform to learn Biology, there were no sufficient zoom learning facilities available for Biology education students to learn Biology, zoom learning platform was easy and useful to learn Biology and there were more challenges faced in using zoom learning platform to learn Biology. The result further showed that there was no significant difference in the availability of zoom learning facilities and the students’ achievement mean scores in Biology education. The following recommendations were made:
Firstly government should provide adequate and dependable zoom learning platforms, application software and the necessary technological tools including effective time schedules for students’ learning. This will help to promote the teaching and learning in pandemic era. Secondly colleges
should have internet connectivity and grant free access to both the lecturers and the students.
This will offer a good opportunity in interconnecting all the students and lecturers for zoom learning in the post Covid-19 era.