USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC TECHNOLOGY IN RIVERS STATE (A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL MOGHO)

Bekee Bari-Aara Charles & Kpegara Saana Nwinle

Faculty of Voc. & Tech. Education, Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Department Electrical/Electronic, Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic Bori. Rivers State

Email: charles2bek@gmail.com, sankpe@gmail.com

  ABSTRACT

The concept instructional materials are those materials both printed and non-printed, tools, equipment, gadgets, machines etc. used by the teacher or instructor in delivering instruction or lesson in other to inspire the leaners. The study aimed at finding out whether or not there is an effect of the use of instructional materials on student academic achievement in basic technology. The design adopted for this study was that of experimental design of the pre-test and post-test session. The posttest means scores of both the experimental and the control group was used in analyzing the Z-test tool. The population consist of students of JSS1,2 and3.each class were 41,43 and 50 respectively, which was used as the sample size since the students were not too much. In JSS1, there were 17 boys and 24 girls, in JSS2,there were 20 boys and 23 girls, while in JSS3,there were 20 boys and 30 girls. The analysis revealed that there was a statistically significant difference in the mean scores of the post test scores of students taught with instructional materials. Among others, it was recommended that, teachers of basic technology should ensure proper use of instructional materials, teachers of basic technology should also use creativity in improvising locally made instructional materials.