EFFECTS OF E-CONTENT ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST IN LEARNING OF AUTOMOBILE LIGHTING SYSTEM IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study determined the effects of e-content on students' achievement and interest in learning of automobile ligting system in technical colleges in Niger State, Nigeria. Distinctively, the study sought to identify the effect of e-content on students' mean achievement in learning automobile lighting system and also based on gender as well as the effect of e-content on students' interest in learning automobile lighting system. Three research questions were raised and two null hypothesis tested at ( P<.05) level of significance guided the study. Quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study and intact classes were assigned to treatment groups. The population of the study was 203 TC II Motor Vehicle Mechanic (MVM) students; these consists of 197 boys and 6 girls. 64 TC II students in GTC Minna constituted the treatment group assigned to conventional teaching method while 139 TC II students in Sulaiman Barau Technical College (SBTC) Suleja are assigned to the e-content instruction method. Two sets of instruments; Automobile Lighting System Achievement Test (ALSAT) and 30 items Automobile Lighting System Interest Inventory (ALSII) were used for data collection. The instruments were subjected to face and content validation by five experts. The reliability of the ALSAT was established using Kuder Richardson 21 (KR 21) formula in which a coefficient of 0.98 was obtained while Cronbach Alpha was used in determining the reliability coefficient of ALSII which was found to be 0.86. The data colelcted from the pretest and posttest using ALSAT and ALSII were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for answering the research questions while analysis for covariance (ANCOVA) was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among others, that the e-content and conventional learning modes significantly increased academic achievement of the TC II students in ALSAT. Although, the achievement mean score of students exposed to e-content learning mdoe was greater than that of conventional learning mode in technical colleges in Niger State and that gender of the students did not have much effect on the student achievement in automobile lighting system achievement test in relation to the treatments given in technical colleges in Niger State, the interest mean score of students exposed to e-content learning mode was greater than that of conventional learning mode in technical colleges in Niger State. Based on these findings, the study among others, recommended that, The Federal and state ministry of education including professional bodies like the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) should organize workshop, seminars and conferences on big data analytics for TVET students to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of students' learning.