Effect of Geo-Board and Charts on Students’ Achievement in Mathematics in Essien Udim, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
Keywords:
students’ achievement, mathematics, charts, Geo-boardAbstract
The study determines the effects of geo-board and charts on students’ achievement in mathematics
in Essien Udim, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Three each of research questions and hypotheses guided
the study. The design was a quasi-experimental design using pretest and posttest non randomized
design. The population was all the Junior Secondary one mathematics students for the year
2022/2023 session in the 11 public Secondary Schools. A sample of 126 students was selected. Simple
random sampling technique was used to select the schools. The instrument for data collection was
Geometry Achievement Test (GAT). The instrument was designed by the researchers and validated by
a panel of four experts all from the Department of Science Education, Akwa Ibom State University,
Mkpat Enin. GAT has a reliability index of 0.79. Two learning packages (one each for geo-board and
chart instructional materials groups) were prepared by the researchers and used in teaching the
students the concept of geometry based on the objectives of the study. The data collected in the
course of the study were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA),
using pretest and posttest scores as covariates. The findings of the study showed that; there was a
significant difference between the mean achievement scores of students’ in Geometry when taught
using geo-board and charts, male students significantly achieved more than the female students in
the concept of geometry in mathematics and there was a significant interaction effect of gender and
instructional materials in the concept of geometry in mathematics, based on these findings, it was
recommended that geo-board should be used by the teachers in the teaching of the concept of
geometry in mathematics.
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