Abstract
The revolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is encompassing in the developed world and reaching to the developing countries. Resultantly ICT has facilitated all fields of life, especially have been brought into education to facilitate learning-teaching process. Pakistan is in a developing phase regarding use of ICT and it is being used in schools by teachers and students. This study was designed to investigate the “Secondary School Student’s attitudes and their practices towards ICT. The study focuses on comparison of these on the basis of Gender, Locale and subject of studies. The sample for the study comprised of 764 boys and 1061 girls from 10 rural and 10 urban Government schools of District Lahore. An adopted questionnaire developed on five point Likert type scale was used to collect data from the sample. Data was analyzed by applying t-test and ANOVA. Results of the study revealed that rural student’s attitude was better towards ICT than urban students; female students’ have better attitudes towards ICT than male students. There was no significant difference between attitude of Science and Arts students. While, there is significance difference between Science & Computer Science Students & Arts and Computer Science students. Further it was concluded that there was significant difference on practices of use of ICT between Science & Arts students. There was no significant difference between Science & Computer Science Students and Arts & Computer Science secondary school students.