Volume : 8, Issue : 8, AUG 2022

EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPROVISATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ON JUNIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION IN AN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE (IGBO) IN EBONYI STATE.

NWIGWE, N.

Abstract

The Study examined the effectiveness of improvisation of instructional materials on Junior Secondary Students’ academic achievement and retention in an Indigenous language (Igbo) in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The study adopted pretest-posttest, control group, quasi-experimental design. Three research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study comprised 1,600 Jss 2 students from fourteen (14) public Junior Secondary Schools in Ohaozara Local Government Area. The sample comprised eighty (80) Jss 2 students selected from two out of the fourteen (14) public junior secondary schools using intact classes. The instrument for data collection was an Igbo Language Achievement Test (ILAT). The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the three research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that students who were taught with improvised instructional materials performed better than their counterparts in the control group taught with conventional method. The study also revealed that students taught indigenous language (Igbo) with improvised instructional materials significantly retained their learning Igbo language, more than the students in the control group taught with the conventional method. Group. Based on these findings, it was recommended that Indigenous language (Igbo) teachers should try to improvise instructional materials for teaching and learning of Igbo language and they should also encourage their students to improvise instructional materials for teaching and learning of Igbo language in Secondary schools.

Keywords

EFFECTIVENESS, IMPROVISED, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, IGBO LANGUAGE, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.

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