Effects of Multimedia Instructional Formats on Senior Secondary Schools Agricultural Science Students Achievement in Minna Educational zone, Niger State, Nigeria. Enhancing Information Management, Science and Technology Education through interactive Multimedia and Hypermedia Instructions

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of multimedia instructional formats on students' achievement in agricultural science. The sample comprised of250 (121 boys and 129 girls) students selected from four senior secondary schools in Minna Educational Zone of Niger State, Nigeria. There were three experimental groups and a control group. The experimental groups were taught with Multimedia instructional formats and the control group was taught using lecture method. The research design was a quasi-experimental pre-test post-test control group design. The Agricultural Science Achievement Test (ASAT) of a 40 items with internal consistency reliability co-efficient of 0.75 was used to measure the student's achievement before and after the treatment Two (2) hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha levels. The data were analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation and ANCOVA. The findings of the study showed that student in experimental groups achieved significantly better than their counterpart in control group. There was statistically significant difference in the achievement of Male and Female students in favor of Male. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that the use of Multimedia instruction formats for teaching and learning should be encouraged in Nigerian schools.