EFFECTS OF COMPUTER BASED SIMULATION TEACHING APPROACH ON NCE STUDENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN MEASUREMENT AND EVALUATION IN AKWA IBOM STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, AFAHA NSIT

Abstract

The study examined the effect of computer-based simulation teaching approach on NCE students' academic achievement in Measurement and Evaluation in Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha Nsit. The design of the study was the quasi-experimental design of 'static-group pretest – posttest design. The population of the study was all the students that wrote 2021/2022 second semester examination in EDU223 (Measurement and Evaluation), the number was 907. Two schools whose students performed worst in the said Examination were purposively selected for the study, the sample size was 87. Two research questions were answered and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance were formulated to guide the study. Two instruments: computer-based simulation (CBS) module and Measurement and Evaluation Test (MET) were utilized in the study. The reliability of 'MET' was established using test-retest method which gave a reliability coefficient of 0.95. Mean and standard deviation were employed in answering the research questions. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test null hypothesis one while independent t-test was used to test null hypothesis two. The findings revealed that students taught 'Basic Statistics' (a topic in Measurement and Evaluation) using computer-based simulation approach performed significantly better than those taught with the traditional talk-chalk method. Also, there was no gender effect on the students taught Basic Statistics using computer-based simulation approach. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that computer-based simulation approach should be employed in teaching students most of the subjects and topics that are not easily understood when taught using the traditional approach of talk-chalk (talking and writing on the board).