USE OF ICT TOOLS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A CASE OF MIRPUR AZAD JAMMU & KASHMIR

Abstract

The use of Information and communication technology in higher educational institutions is an integral part of current educational policy and Higher Education Commission gives a lot of funds to universities in Pakistan. This research study has been conducted to check in the impact of ICT tools on the academic achievement of students of MUST, Mirpur. As per nature of the study, a quantitative approach and correlational survey design were used to conduct the study. The population for this study carried out all the 5507 students of MUST, Mirpur, and the sample consists of 458 students. The data for the study was collected from the sample of the study by using questionnaires. After the collection of the data, the data were analyzed in SPSS. To check the overall impact of ICT tools on academic achievement Pearson Coefficient Correlation was used. The findings and analysis of the data show that the use of ICT tools while using E-library has a significant impact on the academic achievement of students. The results of the study show that the use of ICT tools for improving attitudes of pupils towards learning and it has also significant impact on their academic achievement. The views of students of MUST, Mirpur show that they are using ICT tools for sending the course material to other students and receiving the course material from other students and faculty members and it has a significant impact on academic achievement of the students. It is recommended that the resource center of the university may be fully equipped with ICT tools so that the students can get benefit by using those ICT tools.