Effects of Basic Podcast and Vodcast Methods on Students’ Achievement and Ability in General Woodwork in Technical Colleges in FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.

Abstract

Abstract The study sought to determine the effects of basic podcast and vodcast methods on Students’ Academic Achievement and Ability Level in General woodwork in Technical Colleges in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and answered as well as two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted pretest–posttest non-equivalent control group design of quasi-experimental and factorial design for the study. The study was conducted in FCT. Abuja, Nigeria. The population of this study comprised of the entire 126 year two NTC II general woodwork students in all the Technical Colleges in the study area.A simple random sampling technique was use to sample two technical colleges out the three technical colleges in FCT. The instruments used for data collection wasGeneral woodwork Achievement Tests (GWWAT). The selected schools are Federal Science and Technical College, Orozo 72 and Government Science and Technical College, Garki 54. The instrument was subjected to face and content validation by three experts. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was determined as 0.78 using Kuder- Richardson 20 (K-R 20). The data for the study was collected by the researcher through physical administration of the instrument. The study employed the use of descriptive statistics using mean and inferential statistics using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The study found out that, vodcast teaching technique had positive effect on the academic achievement ofhigh, medium and low ability level of students in general woodwork. The study recommended among others that general woodwork teacher should adopt the use of vodcast teaching technique to enhance students' academic achievement and ability level.