Effect of Animated Instructional Software on Students’ Academic Achievement in Motor Vehicle Maintenance Work in Government Technical Colleges in Rivers State for Sustainable Economy
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The study investigated the effect of animated instructional software on students’ academic achievement in motor vehicle maintenance work (MVM) in Government Technical Colleges in Rivers State, Nigeria for sustainable economy. The study adopted quasi-experimental non-randomized control group design. The population of the study was 95 MVM students from the three Government Technical Colleges in Rivers State that offer motor vehicle maintenance work (MVM). A sample of 75 respondents was drawn using a random sampling technique. Three objectives, three research questions, and three hypotheses guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was the Motor Vehicle Maintenance Work Achievement Test (MVMAT) which has thirty (30) multiple choice questions with four options A-D developed by the researcher and validated by three experts of which two are from the Department of Industrial Technical Education, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt and one from Department of Measurement and Evaluation, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt. The reliability of the instrument was determined by a pre-test on 10 respondents from Government Technical College, Owerri, Imo State, who are not part of the population and produced a reliability coefficient of.74 after subjecting student’s responses to the Kudar-Richardson (KR-20) formula. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze data from the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses of the study at .05 level of significance. The study revealed that the use of animated instructional software in the teaching of MVM aided the academic achievement of students, as those in the experimental group performed better than those in the control group. The study recommends, among others, that animated instructional software should be adopted by curriculum designers and NBTE for technical teachers who will be trained in the usage of the software and should be adequately supervised for effective implementation in instructional delivery.
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