Effects of Conventional Teachingmethod Enriched with Visual Instructional Materials on Academic Performance among Secondary School Physics Students in Kaduna-North, Kaduna, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the Effects of Conventional Teaching Method Enriched with Visual Instructional Materials on Academic Performance among Secondary School Physics Students in Kaduna-North Local Government Area, Kaduna, Nigeria. The study was guided by two research objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses. A sample of 225Physics students from two co-educational public secondary schools in Kaduna-north local government area were randomly selected from the total population of 3489Physics students. This study adopted pre-test and post-test quasi- experimental design. Two groups were formed: the Experimental group and the Control group. The students in the Experimental group were taught Physics concepts using Conventional Teaching Method Enriched with Visual Instructional Materials while the students in the control group were taught the same concepts using conventional method. A validated instrument named Physics Performance Test (PPT) with reliability index of .87 was used during the pre-test and post-test for data collection.A measure of internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha)was used to determine the reliability coefficient of PPT. The sets of data collected from the administrations of the instrument were analysed. The two research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using independent sample t-test statistical tool. The result obtained from data analysis indicated that, students in the Experimental group performed significantly better than those in the Control group academically. The result also showed that, female students in the Experimental group performed significantly better than the male students of the same group. Based on the findings, this study concluded that, using Conventional Teaching Method Enriched with Visual Instructional Materialism teaching and learning of Physics enhances the students’ academic performance and is gender-bias in favour of female students. The study recommended among others that teachers should be encouraged to use Conventional Teaching Method Enriched with Visual Instructional Materials in teaching and learning of Physics especially in single sex (female) schools.

Keywords: Academic Performance Conventional Teaching Method, Visual Instructional
Materials.