Abstract
The study was carried out to determine the demographic factors as correlate of programming
skills acquired by computer education lecturers in South-East universities, Nigeria. Three
specific purposes with three corresponding research questions guided the study and four null
hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted
correlational research design. The instrument for data collection was a structured
questionnaire titled “Demographic Factors and Programming Skill Acquisition
Questionnaire” (DeFPSAQ). The internal consistency of the questionnaire was determined
using Cronbach Alpha reliability test which yielded co-efficient of 0.79. The data collected
from 77 computer education lecturers were analyzed using Point Bi-serial correlation. The
null hypotheses were tested using Point Bi-serial correlation for hypotheses one to three and
multiple regressions for hypothesis four all at 0.05 level of significance. The findings from
the study revealed a weak relationship among age, gender, educational qualification and
programming skills acquisition of computer education lecturers'. In addition, the hypotheses
tested revealed that there were no significant difference among computer education lecturers'
age, gender, educational qualification and their programming skills acquired. It was
recommended among others that computer education department should organize more
programmes on computer programming and imbibe the principle of learning through
practical.
Keywords: Programming, Programming skills acquisition, Demographic factors, Computer
education lecturers, Programming competence
Publication Date: 2026-03-13