EFFECT OF MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS IN KOGI STATE.

Abstract

The study investigated Effects of multimedia instructional strategy on senior secondary school students’ academic performance in mathematics, Kogi State. To achieve this, two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Quasi-experimental design, specifically the pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent and non-randomized control group was adopted for the study. The population of this study consisted of 12703 (6,680 male and 6,023 female) Senior Secondary (SS II) students in 236 public senior secondary schools in Kogi State .The sample consisted 239 (male 132 female 107) Senior Secondary school students (SSII) who are offering Mathematics in four intact classes located in four public secondary schools in Kogi State obtained using multi-stage sampling. The instrument used for data collection was algebra performance Test (APT). Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding showed that, there was a statistically significant difference between the academic performance means scores of students in Algebra when exposed to multimedia instructional strategy and conventional lecture strategy in favour of the multimedia instructional strategy with high mean. The finding also indicated that, there was no statistically significant difference between the academic performance means scores of male and female students taught algebra using multimedia instructional strategy. It was recommended that to increase students’ academic performance in algebra, mathematics teachers should employ multimedia instructional strategies when teaching algebra. Government through the federal and state ministries of education should provide the required instructional materials necessary for the use of multimedia instructional strategies to improve male and female students’ understanding of the various terminologies in Mathematics, also mathematics teachers should be sponsor constantly on in-service training on the use of multimedia instructional strategy