Effects of Videotape Mediated Instruction on Secondary School Students’ Achievement and Retention in Social Studies

Abstract

This study investigated effects of videotape mediated instruction on secondary school students’ achievement and retention in social studies. The study employed the quasi-experimental, pre – test, post- test, control group design. The sample consisted 200 Junior Secondary School two (JSS II) students randomly selected from four schools in chanchaga Local Government Area of Niger State. Fifty 50 students of intact class were assigned to each groups. The research materials used includes videotape mediated instructional Packages, the instrument used was the Social Studies Achievement Test (SOSAT) which was developed by the researcher. The reliability coefficient of 0.82 was obtained. Data analyses were done using Analysis of covariance, Post – hoc analysis was all used were necessary. These showed that the videotape mediated instruction package tested were effective in the learning of Social Studies and had great improvement on the student’s performance after exposed to this media packages it is therefore recommended that teachers should try to get this package to make their teaching more effective.