EFFECTS OF GRAPHIC ORGANIZER ON JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN COMPUTER STUDIES

Authors

  • Chinyere M.Onyeisi

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of graphic organizer on junior secondary school students’ achievement in computer studies. The study employed a pre-test post-test non equivalent control group design. The study was carried out in Enugu Educational Zones of Enugu State. The population of the study is fifteen thousand one hundred and eighty two (15182) JSS II students of computer studies 2014/2015 session in Enugu educational zone of Enugu State. The sample for the study comprised of ninety one (91) Junior Secondary School class II students drawn from two co-educational secondary schools in Enugu Educational Zone of Enugu State. The schools were randomly sampled from a total of 9 co-educational secondary schools in the educational zone. One school was assigned to treatment group while the other school was assigned to the control group. All the intact classes were used for the study. The treatment group was taught computer studies with graphic organizer approach, while the control group was taught computer studies with conventional strategy. Three  research questions and  three corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. A Computer Studies Achievement Test  (CSAT) that is made up of 30 items was used to collect data for the study. The research questions were answered descriptively using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using ANCOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed that graphic organizer approach is superior to the conventional strategy in   facilitating students achievement in computer studies. It also revealed that the mean scores for females is higher than that of male for the group taught with the graphic organizer approach. It was also found that there is no interaction between method and gender on students’ achievement in computer studies. Based on these findings, recommendations were made which include, that government should organize seminars, conferences and workshops to train computer science teachers on the use of graphic organizer as a teaching approach. The study finally concluded that use of graphic organizer teaching approach is effective in facilitating students achievement in computer studies and therefore should be used to teach students.

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Published

2021-09-09