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The study investigated the effects of Kolb’s Experiential and Gardner’s multiple intelligence learning models on students’ achievement and interest in Basic Electricity in Technical Colleges in Gombe state. Six research questions and nine null hypotheses guided the study. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study. The samples for the study were 118 NTC2 students made up of 95 males and 23 females. Purposive sampling technique was used to select two schools from Gombe and Yamaltu Deba Educational zones. Two intact classes tagged Kolb’s and Gardner were used. The instruments used for data collection were 50 objective questions, an interest inventory and a psychomotor test question developed by the researcher which was administered as pretest, posttest to the two groups. Pearson correlation coefficient formula was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded 0.81correlation coefficient. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the interest inventory and 0.84 was obtained. The research questions were answered using mean scores whereas the hypotheses were tested using ANCOVA. The mean scores and ANCOVA results were calculated using SPSS version 23. The result showed that the academic performance and interest of the students taught with Gardner was significantly impacted. Results also showed that the effect of Gardner on academic performance and interest was not significant in relation to gender. The implication of the result for education is that Gardner multiple intelligence learning model is an effective mode of teaching capable of improving students’ performance and interest in Basic Electricity. In view of the findings, it was recommended among others that Gardner multiple intelligence learning model should be adopted in technical colleges, secondary schools and vocational schools for instruction in Basic Electricity to improve academic performance and interest ability of the students.
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