Ict And Record Keeping In Nigerian Colleges Of Education: An Example Of College Of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State

Abstract

The aim of this research was to examine the effectiveness of ICT in record keeping particularly in the computation, recording and the retrieval of students’ transcripts in College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State. This study
adopted survey design where five schools of studies from the College were purposively used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire tagged ICT and preparation of students’ transcripts. 20
staff were randomly selected from each of the schools making a total of 120 staff and administered the questionnaire. The use of simple percentage was adopted to analyse the responses given by the respondents. The result revealed that the use of ICT gadgets facilitate the preparation of students’ raw scores, cumulative GPA and issuance of students’ transcripts among others. It was recommended that computer gadgets should be provided
in every department in the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti to ease the stress involved in the preparation of students’ results and other data.