ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ SKILLS IN USING TECHNOLOGY AND THEIR PERFORMANCE AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL

Abstract

Technology usage has become the main influencer at all the educational levels especially at higher education level. Teachers play an important role in the implementing and executing the technology at higher education level. The objectives of this study were: to determine the skills of teachers in using technology at the higher education level and to find the performance of teachers in using technology at higher education level. The quantitative survey method was used to conduct this study. Two samples were taken one consisting of 93 teachers including 62 male teachers and 31 female teachers and other sample was consisting of 307 students including 206 male students and 101 female students by using stratified random sampling technique. Both samples were taken from the social sciences departments of Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Pakistan. Two questionnaires were used to collect the data from the teachers and students. One questionnaire was used for the teachers to determine the skills of the teachers in using technology and other questionnaire was used for the students to determine the performance of the teachers. The collected data was analysed by using SPSS-25. The results of the study indicated that most of the teachers of social sciences departments of Institute of Southern Punjab don’t have the required skills for using the technology in teaching and learning process and also their performance was not so good.