EFFECT OF INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTER ANIMATION ON SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN CELL BIOLOGY CONCEPT IN OYO TOWN

Authors: Oladipupo Irawo Shadrach, Professor Ige Temisan A, Dr Dorcas O. Oyawole, Opoola-jimoh Jelifat Adebukola & Agada Allwell

ABSTRACT

This Study adopted a pretest-posttest, control group, quasi-experimental design. The research study covered four purposively selected secondary schools from two local government areas in Oyo town, One hundred and ten students of both gender(male and female) were inclusive and the topics covered was Cell Biology in the Senior Secondary Biology Curriculum was taught using the conventional method of teaching and computer animation. Three instruments were used for the study: Biology Achievement Test (r=0.78) this reliability index was obtained using kuder-Richardson Analysis. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance. The result revealed that there is a significant main effect of treatment on students’ achievement in Biology(F(1,109) = 8.47; p< 0.05, partial η2 = 0.77) the students exposed to Instructional Computer animation performed better with the higher adjusted post- biology achievement test mean score (19.88) while the Control group had the least adjusted post- biology achievement Test mean scores (17.99).  It was found that gender had no significant main effect on students’ achievement in biology, so the null hypothesis was accepted. Based on the result of the study, it was recommended that schools should adopt Instructional Computer Animation in teaching to make learning more effective, real and to improve the achievement of senior secondary school students’ in Biology.

Keywords: Instructional Computer Animation, Conventional method, Achievement and Gender

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