Abstract

EFFECTS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE ON SENIOR SECOUNDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS? ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION IN GEOMETRY IN DELTA STATE

Jacob Chinedum Ehiwario,1 Dr. (Mrs) Rita Nneka Nwaka2 and Sunday O. Aghamie3

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The study examined the effect of Computer Assisted Instruction software known as Frizbi Mathematics 4 software on senior secondary school students? achievement and retention in Geometry in Delta State. Pre-test, Post- test quasi-experimental research design was adopted in the study. The population of the study comprises all the SS2 students in Public secondary schools for 2018/2019 session. Purposive sampling technique was used to select two schools based on the fact that they are the only schools with computer laboratory. Thereafter, simple random sampling technique was used to select sample size of 110 which was divided into Experimental and control groups. Students in experimental group were exposed to CAI software while those in the control were taught Geometry with traditional method of teaching. The period of the instruction lasted for four weeks. Thereafter the research instrument tagged Geometry Achievement Retention Test, was administered on both groups. The scores obtained were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that there exists a significant difference in the mean achievement and retention scores of the experimental and the control groups. The observed difference was in favour of the experimental group. The study further revealed that there is no significant difference between the mean achievement and retention scores of male and female students who were exposed to CAI software irrespective of genders. This implies that CAI is not gender bias. The study therefore concludes that CAI-Frizbi Mathematics 4 software has positive significant effects on senior school students? achievement and retention in Geometry. Hence, it recommends among other things that Mathematics teachers be encouraged to use the CAI Frizbi Mathematics 4 software in the teaching of Geometry in secondary school. Keywords: Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Software, Geometry, Achievement, Retention.

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