Effects of Computer Simulation Teaching Strategy on Senior Secondary School Students Attitude in Geography in Jos Metropolis Plateau State, Nigeria

Jibril Y. Ibrahim, Shola A. Otagbo, Dakur S. Dickson

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This study was conducted to examine the effects of computer simulation teaching strategy on senior secondary two students’ attitude in geography in Jos Metropolis Plateau State, Nigeria. The study adopted a pretest posttest quasi non-equivalent experimental design. 1,012 students drawn from 33 public senior secondary schools.  The population is made up of 626 males and 386 females. The sample of the study was 56 from both the experimental and control group. This comprised 24 and 32 male and female both the experimental and control groups. This was obtained through simple random sampling technique. Students Attitude Towards Geography Questionnaire (SATGQ) was the instrument used in data collection. the instrument undergoes a content and construct validity. The content validity was established by three experts from faculty of education, University of Jos. While the construct validity was established after pilot testing of the instrument using factor analysis. The alpha factoring scores of the SATGQ ranges between 0.97 – 0.42. This shows that the instrument has the construct validity.  Two research questions and hypotheses were raised and formulated. Data were analyse using Mean and SD to answered the research questions while analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used in testing the null hypotheses at α 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that: there is a significant difference between the posttest attitude towards Geography mean scores of Senior Secondary Two students in the experimental and control groups. Also, there is no significant difference in the posttest attitude towards Geography mean scores of male and female students in the experimental group. It was recommended that teachers at all level should adopt the use of computer simulation teaching strategy because it is gender friendly. Additionally, teachers should be trained on the use of the strategy to improved students’ attitude in Geography.


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