AN ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION OF THE INTERNET BY STUDENTS OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN RESEARCH PROJECT WRITING
ABSTRACT
Technology is a very important and useful part of life, effective and appropriate use of it still needs to be improved in education. This study set out to investigate the extent to which students of tertiary institutions use internet for their project writing. This study will also present the ways students of tertiary institution access the internet during their research project writing and their trends in literature review using the internet. the main objectives of this study will include surveying the importance of the internet to student of tertiary institutions. To find out if students of tertiary institution use the internet and why they use it to ascertain the contribution services to the academic achievements of students during their project work. The method of research to be adopted in this study is survey method in which data will be collected through the use of questionnaires. The method of statistical analysis will include the use of tables, percentage analysis while hypothesis that will be formulated will be tested using chi-square mathematical techniques.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The internet stated in august 3rd 1962 by J.C.R Lichider of MIT USA as just an ordinary network design. The use of the Internet in the educational environment has enabled easy access to many resources, and information sharing has, therefore, significantly increased. Moreover, the prevalence of this sharing has brought additional benefits in that these resources can be used in any location and any time. Although the efficiency of this technology, it is evaluated with use of proportion of the desired results in students achievement. According to Benson (2002), the internet is a loose of inter-connecting commercial and non-commercial computer networks. The constituent networks are tied together by telecommunications lines and by their shared reliance on standard communications controls. The internet with a capital “I” refers to a world-wide system of linked computer system. When used with a small “I” it is mean a group of inter-connected local networks. The net is the global association of thousands of networks and millions of computers across the world that carries data and makes the exchange of information possible. This network of computers is also referred to as global information system or information super high way. The internet is also known by some people as the web, this is the largest computer networks with thousands f network using a communication protocol known as TCP/IP which means Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
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