EFFECT OF MULTI-MEDIA TEACHING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY IN DEKINA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KOGI STATE

Abstract

The study examined effect of multi-media teaching strategy on students' performance
in secondary school biology in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. Two
objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The design
adopted was a pretest and posttest non-randomized quasi-experimental design. The
population of the study is made up of 6,480 senior secondary school two (SSS II)
students in the area of the study. Simple random sampling technique was use to select
three hundred and twenty four (that is, 176 male and 148 female) SSS II students in
their intact classes from four co-educational secondary schools in Dekina Local
Government Area of Kogi State. The instrument for data collection was Biology
Performance Test (BPT). Kuder-Richardson formular (k-R-20) was used to determine the reliability coefficient index for BPT which was 0.82. After
administering the instruments, data were collected. 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 results of the study
revealed that students taught biology using multi-media teaching strategy had their
performance enhanced than those taught using conventional method. The result also
showed that multi-media teaching strategy has a significant effect on male and
female performance in Biology. Based on the findings, it was recommended among
other things that Biology teachers should use interactive strategies such as multimedia
teaching strategy to teach biology in order to enhance students' academic
performance.