STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON USING GOOGLE CLASSROOM FOR TEACHING OF BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES IN UNIVERSITIES IN EDO STATE

Abstract

The study examined students’ perceptions on using Google classroom for teaching of Business Education courses in universities in Edo State. The descriptive research design using the survey was adopted in the study. The population of the study covered all the four thousand two hundred and one (4201) Business Education students of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma and University of Benin, Benin City. A sample of 420 students representing 10 percent of the students from both institutions was drawn using the simple random sampling technique. A researcher developed questionnaire titled: Google Classroom Perception Questionnaire (GCPQ) was used to collect data. The test-retest reliability coefficient yielded an r-value of 0.79 and 0.82 on usefulness and benefits of Google classroom respectively. Research question 1 and 2 were analysed using mean (𝑋̅) and standard deviation (S.D). The result showed that students have positive perceptions on the usefulness of various features of Google classroom including the singular screen view for student assignments, class arrangement, transfer of class ownership, new class integration and also the commenting features for teaching education courses in universities in Edo State. Also, they had favourable disposition on the benefits of Google classroom with reference to time and file saving benefits, flexibility, user-friendly interface, teachers’ evaluation and feedback for teaching Business Education courses in universities in Edo State. It was thereby recommended that universities management should take advantage of students’ favourable disposition toward Google Classroom by encouraging Business education teacher to introduce the use of the application for assignment and group projects.