Effect of instructional materials on students’ academic achievement in fishery in senior secondary schools

Abstract

This study determined the effects of instructional materials on students’ academic achievement in Fishery in senior secondary schools. The study used a quasi-comparative-experimental research design. The study was carried in Enugu State, Nigeria, precisely in Nsukka Education Zone. The population of the study was 5726, which comprised all the SS II students in senior secondary school offering Fishery in Enugu State. The sample size for this study was 161 SS II Fishery students in 4 intact classes drawn from rural and urban senior secondary schools. An instrument titled “Fishery Achievement Test (FAT)” was used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by three experts. The instrument was trial tested on 50 SS II students in coeducational secondary school (intact class). Kuder-Richardson formula (K-R₂₁) was used to determine reliability of the test which gave a coefficient of 0.81. Data collected was analyzed using mean to answer the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. It was found that instructional materials had an increasing effect on student’s achievement in Fishery in secondary schools, instructional materials has more increasing effect on female than male students’ achievement in Fishery in secondary schools and instructional materials has more increasing effect on urban than rural senior secondary schools students’ achievement in Fishery. It was therefore recommended among others that teachers should always make use of instructional materials in Fishery during classroom instructions to enhance the students’ achievement in Fishery.

Keywords: academic achievement, fishery, instructional delivery, teachers, teaching resources