Examination of Demonstration and Lecture Teaching Methods on Academic Performance of Public Senior High School Students in Financial Accounting in Ghana: Evidence from Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of the lecture methods of teaching on students’ academic performance in financial accounting, to explore the relationship between demonstration methods of teaching and students’ academic performance in financial accounting and lastly to determine the effect of the demonstration method of teaching on students’ academic performance in Financial Accounting in Ghana. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design, specifically, the pre-test, post-test non-equivalent control group. 725 students offering Financial Accounting in senior high schools in Nsawam Adoagyiri municipality formed the population of the study. From the population of the study, 105 students were selected which represent 14.48% of the population as sample using purposive sampling technique. Two senior high schools were purposively selected and randomly assigned to experimental groups and control group. St Martins senior high school, Nsawam senior high School (experimental group) was taught using Demonstration Method and Diaspora senior high School (control group) was taught using conventional Lecture method. The data collection period lasted for four (4) weeks with the use of well-structured questionnaires. A reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis was tested using analysis of covariance at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study revealed that Demonstration method had significant effect on students’ performance than lecture method. Among the recommendations made was that, efforts should be intensified by teachers to aggressively adopt Demonstration Method in teaching Financial Accounting.