Enhancing Senior Secondary School Biology Students’ Academic Achievement using Static and Animated Infographics Platforms in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study enhanced senior secondary school Biology students’ academic achievement using static and animated infographics platforms in Niger state, Nigeria. A pretest posttest quasi-experimental research design was adopted in which two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The sample consisted of 119 (54 males and 65 females) Biology students as intact class of SS II of the four (4) selected secondary schools using a cluster-sampling technique. Two schools were assigned into experimental group I and two schools assigned as experimental group II. Forty (40) multiple-choice questions were used for data collection at pretest and posttest, the instrument were validated by experts and subjected to pilot testing. Coefficient of 0.99 for Static Infographics of the Human Digestive System (SIHDS) and 0.86 for Animated Infographics of the Human Digestive System (AIHDS) as determined through Pearson’s correlation coefficient indicating a strong correlation between the two sets. The data was analysed using mean and standard deviation for the research questions and t-test was used for testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that there was a significant difference t=-47.06, df=118, p-value=0.001 at p<0.05, in the achievement scores. Findings also revealed that significant difference does not exist t-value (t=-0.35, df=1, p-value=0.776 at p>0.05, in the achievement scores of male and female Biology students after exposure to static and animated infographics on the human digestive system. It was recommended among others that Biology teachers should adopt and utilise infographics in their instructional practices.