ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF EMPLOYED IT GRADUATES AT DIFFERENT HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The integration of Information Technology (IT) to education is needed to ensure high quality educational system. In this paper, different IT firms were consulted to know the performance of employed IT graduates based on their respective IT related fields specifically, computer engineering, software management, programming, software design and information and communication. The main objective of this study is to propose to IT firms an appraisal system for evaluating personal performance of her employees and also to propose a way of restructuring the curriculum of academic institutions. Fifty questionnaires were administered and the data gathered were analyzed using an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test statistic. The hypothesis tested was that there is no difference in the performance of graduates based on the category of schools. The result from the analysis was significant which indicated that the performance of IT graduate at different level of education differs.