Effect of Digital Audio Instructional Packages on the Performance of Senior Secondary Students in Oral-English in Minna, Niger State.

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of digital audio instructional package on the performance of Senior Secondary Students in Oral-English in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Also, the influence of gender on the performance of students exposed to digital audio instructional package was examined. The research was a quasi experimental involving pretest, posttest experimental and control group design. The sample for the study comprised forty second year senior secondary school students (SSII) drawn from two equivalent secondary schools within Minna metropolis. Stratified random sampling was used to select 40 students (20 males and 20 females). Three research questions were raised and three hypotheses formulated, and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The Oral-English Achievement Test (OAT) was made of 50-items of multiple-choice objectives type, developed and validated for data collection. The students’ pretest and posttest achievement scores of students taught using: digital audio and the normal classroom instruction were subjected to t-test statistics. The findings of the study showed that the performance of students exposed to digital audio instructional package was better than their counterparts exposed to normal classroom instruction. Similarly, students taught using digital audio instructional package performed better than those taught using normal classroom instruction in the retention test. However, no significant differences existed in the performance of male and female students exposed to digital audio instructional package. Based on the research findings recommendations were made on the need to develop relevant digital audio instructional package in oral English in Nigerian secondary schools.