Effects of Digital –Game and YouTube Instructional Package on the Achievement and Interest in Chemistry among Students in Bida, Niger State

Abstract

Digital game based learning is a strategic and tactical guide in learning process combining content with video games to engage learners; YouTube is a video sharing service that allows users to watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own. The research design adopted for this research is pretest posttest control (Non-equivalent, non-randomization control, experimental research design). A total number of one hundred and fourty two student (142)(77 males and 65 females)for the study were purposively selected for this study from three (3)co-educational schools out of twenty three (23)schools in Bida local government were randomly assign to control and experimental groups. Chemistry achievement test was adapted and validated by two expert in the field of chemistry with the reliability index of 0.748. The chemistry achievement test was administered to students in the pretest, posttest upon treatment of test instrument; the data obtain from pretest and posttest were statistically analyzed using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. The result indicates that digital game and youtube instructional package enhanced the achievement of chemistry student; it also shows that male students did better than female students using digital game and youtube instructional package. It concluded thatExposing Learners to digital game and youtube instruction enhance easy assimilation and recall of student’s memory in chemistry which they did better than those exposed to conventional method. The male student performed better than the female student in digital game and youtube instructional package, it is recommended that the government should make available necessary gadget to aid teaching and learning and curriculum planners and relevant government agencies should incorporate this approach into secondary school curriculum and thus implemented.