Effect Of Computer Animation And Peer Tutoring Methods On Students' Academic Achievement And Retention In Telecommunications In Colleges Of Education In North-East, Nigeria (original) (raw)

This study sought to assess the effect of computer animation and peer tutoring methods on students' academic achievement and retention in telecommunications in colleges of education in northeast , Nigeria. Especially the objectives of the study were to determine the academic achievement and retention of students in telecommunications when taught with computer animation and peer tutoring peer tutoring methods on experimental groups and lecture method on control groups. The study used quasiexperimental design which employed non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group design. The instrument for data collection was Telecommunications Achievement and Retention Test (TART) which comprises of 50 questions that fell into the following four topics: Modulation technique and Needs for Modulation, AM and FM Modulation, Principles of Antenna and Radio Wave Propagation. Three validates validated the instrument. Two validates were from the department of Electrical Technology Education, Modibbo Adama University Yola, and one validate was from the department of Electrical Technology Education, Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum. The reliability of the instrument was assessed by using Kuder-Richardson Method (KR-21), having a reliability coefficient index of 0.78. The population of the study comprised of all the NCE III Electrical students of the two (2) participating colleges of education, because the effect of only two methods was examined. Therefore, fourty three (43) students in Federal College of Education (Technical) Gombe and Twenty two (22) students in Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum which made up a total population of 71, for the 2021/2022 session. The entire population was used as a sample. The researcher met and sought the cooperation of the telecommunications teachers of the colleges who invariably accepted to serve as research assistants in the experiment. The research assistants were given a hard copy of the lesson note and the lessons plans. The data for the study was collected by the tutors after administering the instrument for the pretest prior the commencement of the experiment and for the posttest after the treatment was