IMPACT OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA
IMPACT OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA
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2015-10
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ISHIYE, Auwalu
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Abstract
structional resources in contemporary education has the potentials to
accelerate, enrich, and deepen skills, and provide opportunities for
concentration on the lesson and arouse the interest of learners by enabling them
to actively participate in the lesson. It has been observed that since the
introduction of electronic instructional resources in teaching and learning
processes, Social Studies Education is yet to comply adequately with this trend
of teaching, this is due to the fact that most of teachers and students in social
studies are not computer literate. Even in cases where the teachers are literate,
they find it challenging to alter the traditional techniques of teaching in favour
of using instructional resources. Basically, the thrust of this experiment centred
on the impact of instructional resources on the academic performance of JSS
learners of Social Studies in Katsina State. Thus, the quasi-experimental design
was adopted for the study and a sample of 400 was selected through the simple
random sampling. The SPSS version 16 was used to analyse the t-test statistic,
and the level of significance for determining the statistical significance of the
study was placed at 0.05 with degree of freedom 118 for hypothesis one and 58
for hypotheses two, three and four. The result showed among other findings that
there is significant difference between academic performance of male and
female social studies learners when using instructional resources in teaching
them. The result of findings revealed further that there is significance difference
between rural and urban Social Studies learners when using instructional
resources in teaching Social Studies. Also the experiment affirmed that there is
significant difference between the academic performance of private and public
social studies learners. When using instructional resources in teaching social
studies. The findings also indicated that there is significant difference between
academic performance of JSS II and JSS III Social Studies learners when using
instructional resources in teaching of social studies. Finally the study
encouraged using ofresources in teachingSocial Studies and also called for the
training and retraining of Social Studies teachers in the use of instructional
resources in teaching of Social Studies.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA NIGERIAIN PARTIAL
FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF
MASTERS DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF
EDUCATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
Keywords
IMPACT,, INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES,, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,, SOCIAL STUDIES,, JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, KATSINA STATE,, NIGERIA