Gender difference in achievement and interest of students exposed to concept in Blocklaying, Bricklaying and concreting using videotaped computer assisted instruction

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate gender difference in the achievement and interest of students in in Blocklaying, Bricklaying and Concreting using Videotaped and Text-based computer assisted Instruction (CAI). Quasi-experimental design of pre-test, post-test group was adopted. 190 students from Niger state constituted the population specifically, 93 students from treatment group A (Videotaped CAI) while, 97 students constituted the treatment for group B (Text-based CAI). Tworesearch questions and two null hypotheses were developed to guide the study. The instruments for data collection were Blocklaying, Bricklaying and Concreting Achievement Test (BBCAT) and Blocklaying, Bricklaying and Concreting Interest Inventory (BBCII). The instrument was validated by five expert from Industrial and Technology Education Department, Federal University of Technology, Minna. The reliability coefficient of BBCAT was 0.96 using Pearson Product Moment Correlation while, the internal consistency of the BBCII items was found to be 0.83 using Cronbach Alpha. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0. 05 level of significance. The study revealed that male students taught BBC with CAI had higher mean scores than female students taught . with Videotaped CAI in BBCAT. The study also revealed that, female students taught BBC with text-based CAI had higher mean scores than male students taught with Text-based CAI in BBCAT. However, female students taught BBC with Videotaped CAI had higher mean scores than male students taught with Videotaped CAI in BBCII. Consequently, the researcher recommended that the National Board for Technical Education should consider it necessary in the curriculum content adaptation to computer assisted instructional strategies for teaching BBC at technical colleges in the next review of the curriculum.