EFFICACY OF MULTIMEDIA ELEMENTS ON STUDENTS’ ABILITIES IN CREATIVE ARTS IN ANDONI EDUCATION ZONE, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the efficacy of multimedia elements on students’ abilities based on interest and performance in Creative Arts within Andoni education zone, Rivers State. Quasi-experimental research design was adopted in this study. The population for the study was 1,183 students in the 13 public Junior Secondary Schools two JSSII in Andoni education zone. Purposive sampling was used to sample two schools. 183 JSSII students from the two sampled schools participated in the study. Creative Arts Interest Inventory (CAII), Creative Arts Performance Test (CAPT) and Students’ Ability Test (SAT) were developed by the researchers and used for data collection. CAPT and SAT reliability was computed using Kudder-Richardson (K-R20) reliability method and a reliability index 0.73 and 0.83 was obtained for CAPT and SAT respectively. The internal consistency of CAPT and CAII was tested using Pearson Product moment correlation coefficient and r=0.72 and 0.87 were obtained for CAPT and CAII respectively. Treatment for the two experimental groups were text-audio instruction for group 1 and audio-video instruction for group 2, the two groups serves as control to each other. Mean, Standard Deviation were used to answer research questions while ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that high ability students (mean gain= 29.52) outperformed their low ability (mean gain=24.38) in the two groups. Therefore, the researchers recommends that when using multimedia approach, students’ ability should not demine the type of multimedia to adopt.