EFFECT OF VIDEO BASED INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN BASIC TECHNOLOGY IN NIGER STATE

Abstract

Abstract: The study was carried out to determine the impact of video based instructional strategy on basic technology student's academic performance in Junior Secondary Schools in Niger State Nigeria. Pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was adopted. The population for the study is 22,226junior secondary school basic technology students. One hundred and ninety three students were purposively selected for the study an intact classes were used for the two schools. This was divided into two (2) groups (A and B). Data collection phase lasted for six weeks, pre-test was given before exposing the students to the treatment variable. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions, while t-test statistics was use to test null hypotheses one and two. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 (P=0.05). The analysis of the findings revealed among others that, instructional digital video disc has significant impact on the academic performance of basic technology students. It was also found that, there is no significant difference in the academic performance of male and female students taught basic technology with instructional digital video disc. The study revealed that, maintaining the use of instructional digital video disc in teaching by the teachers of basic technology enhanced teaching and learning thereby improving students academic performance. It was recommended among others that, there is need for curriculum planners to emphasize the importance of using video based instructional strategy when teaching basic technology by the teachers in secondary schools. Teachers in secondary schools should be encouraged by school administrators to use instructional digital video disc when teaching basic technology.