Effects of Social Media on Students' Achievement in Learning Automobile Lighting System in Technical Colleges in Niger State

Abstract

This study determine the effects of social media on students' achievement in learning automobile lighting system in technical colleges in Niger State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses tested at (P< .05) level of significance guided the study. A quasiexperimental design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 203 TC II Motor Vehicle Mechanic (MVM) students; this consists of 197 boys and 6 girls. Two intact class made up of 64 TC II students in GTC Minna were assigned to conventional teaching method and 139 TC II students in Sulaiman Barau Technical College (SBTC) Suleja were assigned to the Social Media Instruction (SMI) technique. The instrument used for data collection was the Automobile Lighting System Achievement Test (ALSAT). ALSAT was subjected to face and content validation by three experts in MVM. The study found out that the students taught with conventional lecture method had significantly higher mean achievement score than students taught automobile lighting system with SMI. Despite the fact that the students performed better in the use of conventional lecture method, however, the use of SMI appreciably increased the performance of the students based on gender. It was, therefore, recommended among others that, automobile teachers should be taught the application and usage of various modern teaching techniques such as Social Media Instruction (SMI) for effective teaching and learning of automobile lighting system and other technical vocational courses in technical colleges.