Use of Computer-aided Instruction for Effective Teaching and Learning of Physics in Secondary Schools in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State

Abstract

Computers today are widely used to do many computations in a fraction of time; it would take most humans to do. The study is therefore set-up to find out if the use of computer-aided instruction would improve students’ performance in computer science in secondary schools. A quasi-experiment was carried out on forty (40) students from two (2) selected secondary schools in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State as sample. A pre-test-post-test method of data collection was adopted. Descriptive statistics was used. The pearson product moment correlation coefficient of internal consistency for conventional teacher oriented method and the computer aided instruction was 0.6231 which is an indication that difference exist between the two groups also from the test analysis and comparison, t¬-critical (t-crit) was greater than t-calculated (t-cal) i.e t-crit 1.73 > t-cal 0.18. Two hypothesis were tested at P0.05 level of significance using t-test analysis. The result of the findings showed that, students who learnt via computer-aided instruction performed better than those who learnt via the conventional teacher oriented instructions or the chalk board method. Also, male students performed better than the female students using computer-aided instruction. It is recommended that, computer-aided instruction should be used in schools to teach various concepts in computer science.