The Use of ICT and Academic Performance among Undergraduates of the Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language at South Eastern University of Sri Lanka: A Gender-Based View

Abstract

This paper presents a study academic performance on gender-based using ICT as supportive techniques among the Undergraduate students of the faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Languages. Mainly this research area focused on first-year students a total of 430. Among them, a sample of 120 students from the batch of first-year undergraduate’s students used for research purpose in this study. Among this sample of students, 60 were boys and 60 were girls, and questionnaires were circulated among them to analyze the genderbased performances through the literacy of computer knowledge on the undergraduate students of Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Languages (FIA). For this research, a questionnaire was used as the survey instrument to distinguish the details. Their characteristics are related to their background and experiences in working with ICT tools as well as research area-related questions such as fundamentals of ICT knowledge also covered in that questionnaire. Computer usage level and the literacy determines the success and the failures of Undergraduates. Finally, the results discovered that even though male students were showed interest over female students, they scored lesser compared to females.