ABSTRACT

The study examined Mobile Application Technologies and Managing Learning strategies as Correlates of Lecturer’s Instructional Effectiveness in Public Universities in South East Nigeria. Ten research questions were answered and ten hypotheses postulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The study adopted a correlation design. The population was 634 lecturers from six colleges and faculties of education in the selected universities. The sample size was 317 lecturers which represents 50% of the population. This consists of 80 lecturers from MOUAU, 75 lecturers from UNN, 53 lecturers from FUNAI, 28 lecturers from ABSU, 48 lecturers from IMSU and 33 lecturers from EBSU. The sample was arrived at using four-staged sampling technique. Data for the study was collected using researcher’s self-developed questionnaires titled ‘’Mobile Application Technology, Managing Learning Questionnaire (MATMALEQ) and ‘’Lecturers’ Instructional Effectiveness Questionnaire’’ (LIEQ). The instruments were validated by two experts from the Department of Educational Management, specialized in Educational Administration and Planning and one expert from the Department of Science Education specialized in Measurement and Evaluation, all from MOUAU. The reliability of the instruments was determined using Cronbach Alpha Method which yielded an alpha of.70 and .80 respectively which were considered reliable. Data were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to answer the research questions while linear regression analysis was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that availability of mobile application technologies to a positive low/weak extent correlate with lecturers’ instructional effectiveness in public universities in south east Nigeria. Game software application technology has a positive low extent correlation with lecturers’ instructional effectiveness in public universities in South East Nigeria. The study recommends amongst others that there is need for training and retraining of lecturers to acquaint them with the development of new technologies for instructional delivery.