Preparedness and Attitude of College Students toward ICT-Based Education In a Younger HEI in Bacoor City, Cavite, Philippines

The ubiquity of ICT has been a phenomenon in any of the world’s educational system. With the challenges of ASEAN integration in 2015, are new and younger HEI’s and their learners coping with this trend? This study seeks to determine the preparedness and attitude of higher education students of new HEI’s about ICT-based education. Descriptive design was used in this research that utilized a researcher-made questionnaire (α=.971). The results of the study show that college students have positive affirmation (“agree”) about ICT use in education (x=3.71, S=.75). Moreover, it is also revealed that gender significantly influence attitude of students (z=3.91, p=.00), in which male has higher level of attitude (x=3.91) than women (x=3.61). Moreover, it demonstrates that generally preparedness towards ICT has nothing to do with the attitude of students toward ICT use in education. However, a significant negligible positive correlation is noted between exposure to ICT and attitude at .05 level of significance (r=.15; p=.002; one-tailed), which implies that the more a student is exposed to ICT, the more that one’s attitude towards ICT-based education improves. It was concluded that ICT-based education through full ICT integration can be easily accepted and adapted as the new structure of education for the next years to come. Therefore, new and younger HEIs should invest more on ICT accessibility and connectivity to further enhance attitude and preparedness towards ICT-based education.