Influence of Technological Interventions at Improving Adult Literacy of Business Women Entrepreneurs in Lagos State

Abstract

The objective of this work is to dissect how technological intervention has contributed towards improving Adult Business Women’s Literacy in Lagos State. Despite efforts and initiatives at improving adult literacy program in the country adult business women continue to face mirage of challenges and problems in accessing and benefiting from the scheme and program. All over the world technology intervention has remained a functional tool for advancement of medicine, law, inventions, philosophy, educational settings among others. Descriptive research design was employed in this study as three objectives were formulated to guide the focus of this study. Population comprises of all adult literate business entrepreneurs (women). Through purposive sampling technique, five centres of National Teachers Institute where adult learners are exposed to instruction. in the state were selected. Simple random sampling technique was introduced to select twenty adult literate entrepreneurs across the five centres to form a sample 100 women. The study constructed 20 – items instrument titled, “ITIIAWLQ” Influence of Technological Interventions at Improving Adult Business Women’s Literacy Questionnaire was used to collect data. The Questionnaire used three likert scale scale of Agree, Unsure and Disagree were used to condition respondents’ responses. Construct validity was determined by two experts in departments of Adult and Business Education from Lagos State University of Education, Ijanikin using split half form of reliability yielded an index value of .899. Descriptive statistics of simple frequency and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used to analyse the data and tested at 0.05 significant level. The study revealed that the extent of technology penetration in the teaching of adult learners is very significant as almost all centres have acclimatized to the practice.  The study concluded that limited access to network, cost of gadgets and electrification remains teeming challenges confronting technology use in adult business women literacy. It recommended that academic packages (e-packages) should be designed to enhance effective teaching and learning of adult education programs.