Effects of Video instructional package on interest of secondary school biology students in north central Nigeria.

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of interactive video instructional package on students’ interest in mammalian skeletal, osmosis and diffusion in biology. The influence of gender on ss1 in biology class was also examined. Quasi-experimental design, specifically the pretest, posttest non-equivalent control group design was used. Purposive sampling technique was used in choosing the four schools that comprised sample size of 169 students. Two intact classes were used and each was assigned as experimental group and the other as control group. The control group was taught using lecture method while experimental group was taught using video instructional package. The experimental group comprises of 86 students and the control group comprised of 83 students made of up 85 male and 84 females. Student Interest inventory on Biology (SINIOB) was used to collect data. The coefficient of 0.87 was obtained for SINIOB using Cronbach alpha formula. Two research questions formulated by the researcher were answered using mean and standard deviation while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test two hypotheses formulated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the use of video instructional package is an effective means for teaching and learning Biology topics taught SS1 students in suleja, Niger State. The students exposed to video instructional package showed more interest than exposed to lecture method.