EFFECT OF HANDS ON ACTIVITY TEACHING STRATEGY ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN BASIC PROGRAMMING IN BORNO STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of Hands on Activity Teaching Strategy on Senior Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in BASIC Programming in Borno State. Specifically, the study had three objectives, three research questions and three hypotheses. The design for the study was quasi-experimental with population of 7,527 students in twenty senior secondary school taking computer studies as a subject in southern educational zone of Borno state. Two intact classrooms selected randomly from the experimental; and control groups thus each consisted of 60 students respectively. A purposive sampling was used to select the two schools been the only schools with the required computer gadgets to carry out the study. The research instrument, title as performance test, was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by two experts and the reliability coefficient of 0.75 was obtained. The data collected were analyzed using statistic of mean and standard deviation to answer research questions. Then ttest was employed to test the hypotheses at alpha = 0.05. Findings show that, there was statistically significant difference in the mean performance scores of students taught BASIC programming using hands on activity method. There was no significant difference in the mean performance score of male and female students taught BASIC programming using hands on activity method of teaching. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that, government through the ministry of education should fund the computer laboratories that will enhance the interest of both male and female students mainly to improve the students’ academic performance in computer studies in general and BASIC programming in particular