Impact of Audio – Visual Materials on Students’ Academic Performance in Physics in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Abstract
This study investigated the Impact of Audio – Visual Materials on Students’ Academic Performance in Physics in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A descriptive research design was adopted which seeks to find out the application and usage extent of usage of audio-visual materials in the teaching of Physics in Senior Secondary School in Ikere Local Government. The population for the study consists of all Senior Secondary School Physics Students in Ikere-Ekiti. The schools used for the study were randomly selected from all the Senior Secondary Schools in Ikere-Ekiti, the sample used in this study were SSS 2 students from the some selected Senior Secondary Schools in Ikere-Ekiti. Four schools were sampled from all the secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State and one hundred (100) SSS 2 students from the four selected schools were selected as participants for the study. The students were to provide responses to the questionnaire items. The only instrument to be used for data collection was questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to validity and reliability mechanism.
In analyzing the collected data, the researchers used descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage to analyse respondents’ demographic data, to answer the research questions while inferential statistics of Chi-square analysis was used to test the formulated research questions. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations were made.
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