Digital Devices and Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Biology in Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Keywords:
students’ achievement, mobile phone, projector, BiologyAbstract
This study examined the effects of digital devices on secondary school students' achievement
in Biology in the Eket local government area of Akwa Ibom State. The design of the study was
a quasi-experimental design using a pre-test and post-test non-randomized control group.
The population was all the Senior Secondary one (SS1) Biology students for the 2020/2021
session in all the public Secondary Schools in Eket local government area. A total of 150
students constituted the sample for the study (50 students in experimental group one, 47
students in experimental group two, and 53 students in the control group). Biology
Achievement Test (BAT) was used for data collection with a reliability index of 0.78. The
instrument was designed by the researchers and validated by a panel of experts, one from the
Biology Department and the other from Measurement and Evaluation, Department of Science
Education, Akwa Ibom State University. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided
the study. The hypotheses were analyzed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at a 0.05
significant level. The findings showed that students achieved better using mobile phones and
projectors compared to the expository learning strategy in the concept of nutrition in
Biology; female students significantly outperformed their male counterparts. Consequently,
mobile phones should be used by students in the learning of concepts in Biology.
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