EFFECTS OF COMPUTER ANIMATION PACKAGE ON SENIOR SECONDARY TWO STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY IN JOS NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of computer animation package on senior secondary two students’ achievement in Biology in Jos North LGA, Plateau State. Two objectives were stated; two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design, specifically the pre-test post-test non-equivalent control- group design. The population of the study consisted of all 731 SS 2 students (392 males and 339 females) who were offering Biology in the 22 public senior secondary schools in Jos North LGA, Plateau State in the 2024/2025 academic session. A sample of 52 students (21 males and 31 females) drawn from two intact classes from two schools selected from the 22 public senior secondary schools in Jos North Using stratified sampling technique participated in the study. Data were collected using Biology Achievement Test (BAT). It consisted of 40 multiple choice questions with options A-D. The questions were adapted from West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination and JAMB past question papers. The maximum marks obtainable was 100, while the minimum obtainable marks were 0. Three experts validated the instrument. The reliability of the BAT was established using Kuder-Richardson 20 (K-R20) method which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.93. The descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. While, Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings show that CAP had significant positive effects on the achievement of students in Biology as the the experimental group had higher achievement mean gain than the respondents in the control group. The study also found that no significant difference existed between the achievement mean scores of male and female students in the experimental group hence the students did not differ significantly in their achievement based on gender. It was recommended that the Federal and state governments, school authorities including NGOs should devote more fund to providing information technology tools and reliable power sources to secondary schools, teachers’ should be train on use of computer animation in schools and also be encouraged to integrate computer mediated teaching strategies like the use of computer animation package in the teaching and learning of their various subjects.