THE EFFECT OF POWER-POINT MEDIA ON PUPIL’S UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC TECHNOLOGY BASED ON SCHOOL TYPE AND LOCATION IN BAUCHI STATE, NIGERIA

Muhammad Bappa Aliyu

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In recent years, the use of PowerPoint (a form of multimedia) presentation in classroom instructions has significantly increased globally without examination of their effects on student learning particularly with reference to school type and school location. This study therefore assessed the effect of power-point media on students’ understanding of Basic Technology in Bauchi State with reference to school type and school location. The population of the study consisted of all the private and public primary schools in both urban and rural areas. A total of one hundred and twenty (120) pupils’ were randomly selected from the four primary schools. In each school ten (10) pupils were randomly selected from primary three, five and six to form thirty pupils per school. A pre-test, treatment and post-test were administered to the three classes in each school. The result shows that private primary school scored higher than public primary school and urban primary schools scored higher than rural primary schools. Descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the result. The one-way ANOVA test indicated significant difference between the Mean scores of pupils from private and public primary schools at (P<0.001). There was also a significant difference for the mean scores of pupils from urban and rural primary schools at (P<0.001).   The study concluded that the power-point media had effect on the achievement scores of pupils’ from private and urban primary school more than public and rural primary school. The use of the package is recommended for the teaching of Basic Technology in primary schools in the study area. 


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