Dropbox Photo-Text Instructional Strategy and Academic Performance of Teacher Trainees in Universities in South-South Nigeria
Keywords:
Photo-text, Dropbox, Instructional Strategy, Visual Materials and Teacher TraineesAbstract
This study examined the effect of Dropbox photo-text Instructional Strategy on Academic Performance of Teacher Trainees in Universities in South-South Nigeria. To achieve this, two objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The quasi-experimental pretest –posttest non randomized control group design was adopted to teach 414 students out 2490 Educational Technology students in four sampled State Universities out of seven in South-South Nigeria. Two universities were used as experimental group 1 and 2 and two for control. The lesson content on visual instructional materials was developed by the researcher and taught using dropbox instructional strategy and dropbox photo-text discussion strategy for experiment 1 and 2 while expository teaching method was used for control group. The researcher-made instrument titled Educational Technology Performance Test (ETPT) was used for data collection. Two experts validated the researcher-made instrument. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was obtained using Spearman Brown Prophecy Formula. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.97. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation on concept of visual instructional materials in Educational Technology. The hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the use of dropbox instructional strategy enhanced educational technology teacher trainees’ performance compared to expository method. It was concluded that the combination of different teaching methods, instructional media, pictures or photo-text discussion and online file (content) sharing enhance academic performance of teacher trainees in universities in South-South Nigeria. Based on the findings, it is recommended among others that universities academic policy and curricula should include the use of dropbox instructional strategy and photo-text discussion strategy during instructional delivery process to enhance teacher trainee academic performance.
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