Effect of E-Scenario Based Model on Students’ Retention in Electronic Works in Technical Colleges in Gombe State

Aminu Hussaini

Abstract


This research was carried out with the aim of testing the e-Scenario Based Model on Technical College Students’ Retention in Electronics Works Trade in Gombe state. Three (3) research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted Pre-test–post-test non-equivalent group Quasi-experimental design. The area of the study was Gombe state. The population of the study consisted of 145 students while the sample of the study consisted of 58 students from the two selected technical colleges. The instrument used for the collection of data was Electronics Works Performance Test Instrument (EWPTI), which is a 10-item instrument for assessing how students conducted the practical test. The test instrument was validated by two experts from the Department of Electrical Technology Education MAU, Yola and one expert from the Department of Vocational and Technology Education, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. A reliability coefficient of 0.8 was obtained using Chronbach's Alpha method which showed that the instrument was valid. Mean and standard deviation was used to analyze research questions while a t-test was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The students were taught for a period of six weeks. The experimental group was taught using e-Scenario Based Model while the control group was taught using the conventional method. Post-test was administered to the students after the treatment, followed by a retention test after a-two-week interval. The means retention scores of students in experimental and control groups were 74.26 and 58.07 respectively while the mean performance scores of male and female students in the experimental group were 70.49 and 74.38 respectively. The findings revealed among others that, students taught usingeE-Scenario Based Model performed better than the students taught using the conventional method. It was therefore recommended that teachers should be trained and encouraged to use both offline and online e-Model SBT in the process of teaching.


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