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THE PROBLEM
OF TEACHING AND LEARNING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTION
ABSTRACT
This project
work was carried out to examine the problem of teaching and learning of
Computer Science in tertiary institutions in Enugu State.
The result
of the finding further established the nation of other scholars who opined that
proper use of teaching method, appropriate use of teaching material improve
teaching and learning of this course. Emnenalo (1992).
Chapter One and two is the background
of the study and the review of related literature respectively. In Chapter
three, the research method and overall design of the study was presented.
Chapter four, dealt with data
presentation and analysis. The educational implications of the study,
recommendations and summary were contained in Chapter five references and
Appendixes were inclusive.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Background
information from creation shows that there has been consistent search by man to
improve and raise the standard of his existence. The ever-increasing research
has been necessitated and moved by the simple need to address the challenges
posed by his environments.
As a result of this need, a number of
inventions have been made in virtually every field of human life. The computer
system is one of the most evident of such inventions. It is a tool specifically
made for computable problems. In most areas, it is an indispensable tool. The
knowledge of the ability to use the computer have become so important and
indesperate that there is new ever need to teach it in our tertiary
institutions.
The history or the modern computer date
back to the nineteenth century, when in 1834 in England, an English Scientist
named Charles Babbage developed a program controlled mechanical digital
computer in-cooperating a complete arithmetic unit.
The first
generation of computer include the types discovered by Babbage, it performs
operations in predetermined sequence, Babbage used cardboard holes punched into
them for present all types of information to the machine.
The second generations of computer was
based on punched card machines, the USN Census of 1890 utilized this
technology. The third generation of computer resurfaced in the terties which
was mainly for commercials, it was called UNIVAC. I designed by Eckert and
Mandy, IBM 360/370 series and many more also included.
The late seventies came up with
well-known personal computer like Radio shark, Apell 11 113mpc, this group
could be classified as the fourth generation of computer.
The fifth generation of computer
influenced the business community, this came in with a lot of software. We have
computer with 80286, 80486, 80586, Intel Chips. They were of enormous speed and
fund their way into every office and institution.
The latest and sixth generation of
computer is the Pentium technology. They are very fast, when computer first
came to Nigeria,
our colonial masters were in control of most
of the firms that could afford one. As such the trend was to purchase foreign
software packages. The fact that, there were few software manufactures in the
country did not help matters at all. Computers were born and raised by armed
forced and popularized by the consumer economy. But their greater in value may
prove to be neither military nor commercial with the cold was recording. It is
now apparent that we are controlled by two or more over whelming challenges.
Computers were first applied to massive Mathematical problems for which the
military wanted answers such as explaining the Terrence, greater by atomic
explosions. Nowadays, the labour markets, it selective preferring candidates
who posses the skill to use the computer. To prepare students on the new
demands of the world labour market, institutions now introduce computer science
in their curriculum.
The accelerating awareness of the
authentic and unique role of computer science in the social, economical and
political life of a country led Nigeria to the social, economical and political
life of a country led Nigeria to the introduction and adaptation of an
education
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policy that necessitated the inclusion of
computer science in the curriculum in the various institutions of higher
learning. The processing of information whether in business, education or
government has become one of the world major endeavour computers are
indispensable in this effort and students at all levels particularly in
tertiary institutions want to learn not only what computers are but also what
computers can do and cannot do. Many of these students hope to understand how
they can use computer to solve problems and to process information to help all
such people achieve those educational objectives. Also the realities and
international competition require business organization to be more effective
and efficient through the development of the appropriate and necessary
resources and the acquisition of essential skills.
To realize the objectives of this
program at all levels of education calls for employment of teachers whose
educational qualifications training and expense both in science and social
science sufficiently equipped them in turn to produce skilled manpower in the
field. The over all aim of introducing computer science is therefore to
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train those
who will hopefully look to gainful vocation in the field of education,
business, industries and also government services. According to Garish (1997)
stated that: it is very unfortunate that many Nigerians associate computer
science with madness. One is often looked upon to be queer in the society when
one introduces oneself as a computer scientist. This views worse still, many
atimes students are meant to believe that computer science is very difficult
course. This has a bad psychological effect especially on the beginners in
tertiary institutions and they begin the course with fear, expecting total
failure.
From what Garish said above, one may
say that one of the factors which help to retard the progress of computer
studies in the country is that some students and even teachers associate
computer science with insanity and difficulty. Contributing John Peter (1999)
stated that it may also be because of loss of confidence on the part of the
students usually through missing some steps in an argument or through failing
to master some piece of technique example in
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programming
a given information. If however, it is admitted that lack of success leads to
loss of confidence.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This research work is designed to find
out whether there are unqualified teachers/lecturers in the tertiary
institution of the department of computer science, whether there is also the
problems of poor teaching method in our tertiary institution and lack of
computer science laboratories.
The inappropriate teaching restore
equipment and unconducive environment for teaching and learning is a problem
that calls for study in this work.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose
of this study is to investigate the problems of teaching and learning of
computer science in tertiary institution instigated into:-
- Whether teachers and students are having
any problem in teaching and learning of the course.
- The kind of problem been faced by
teachers and students.
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- Causes of these incidence of problems
encountered by teacher and students.
- Make contribution that should be of
interest to teachers, students, researchers and even Ministry of Education.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This study
will be of great help to the present and prospective policy makers in Nigerians
educational system in the area of planning and curriculum development.
The knowledge is enriching and therefore
will be of great help to students, teachers and other researchers who might be
interested in this and other related areas. The findings of the study will help
the administrator and student who are directly concerned in this topic/project
to solve their problems.
1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The research
work was limited to the tertiary institutions in Enugu State with emphasis on
problems of teaching and learning of computer science in tertiary institutions.
It is however, believe that the findings and conclusions of this study will be
applicable to other
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Tertiary
Institution in the country. The investigation was limited to student of
computer science.
RESEARCH
QUESTION
1. Are the Computer Science
teachers/lecturers in high institutions qualified?
2. Are there well equipped computer science
laboratories for practical?
3. Do lecturers/teachers use appropriate
teaching method?
4.
Do students have access to the use of laboratory equipment with
lecturers guide?
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