An Examination of the Facilitative Effect of the Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) in Studentss Achievement in Chemical Reaction and Equilibrium

Abstract

This study is an examination of the effect of the Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on senior secondary school students’ achievement in chemical reaction and equilibrium. The study employs a pretest, posttest non-randomized control group design. The sample size of the study comprises of 128 male and 112 female students (n=240). Simple random sampling was used to assign intact classes to experimental and control groups, while purposive sampling was used to select 10 public senior secondary schools in Oju LGA of Benue State. The instrument used for the study is the Chemical Reaction and Equilibrium Achievement Test (CREAT). The students’ scores from CREAT were collected and analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and ANCOVA was used to analyze data for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there is a significant difference between the mean achievement of students taught chemical reaction and equilibrium using CAI and those taught same using conventional strategy (F1, 239=309.572;P=0.000 0.05). Based on the findings, the study recommends that, government should increase funding for the entire educational sector in order to procure reasonable number of computers and its software like CAI for senior secondary school to enhance teaching and learning with CAI strategy to aid achievement in chemistry.