Abstract

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In the contemporary society, internet is becoming part and parcel of our lives and hence in the lives of teachers and their students alike is not an exception. This study investigated the capacity of internet usage by on-campus pre-service teachers in an undergraduate degree program in elementary school option. Internet scale was developed and validated using a pilot sample and yielded a reliability coefficient of Cronbach alpha of 0.77. Proportionate random sampling from each of the four years (cohorts) of study resulted to a sample size of 79 respondents. Both descriptive and inferential data analyses were conducted on the collected data. The findings of this study revealed that internet usage by pre-service teachers was very low. A major recommenda tion is that as computer ownership is increasingly advocated, equipping college libraries with enough Internet-connected computers and WIFI services should be taken into account.