Effects Integrating Personalized Learning Environment On Students' Achievement in Social Studies in Secondary Schools in Imo State.

Onyenma, Chinwendu and Emeana, Beatrice and Nwakamma, Christiana O. (2024) Effects Integrating Personalized Learning Environment On Students' Achievement in Social Studies in Secondary Schools in Imo State. International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, 12 (4). pp. 1-15. ISSN 2054-6297(Print), 2054-6300 (Online)

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Abstract

This study is aimed at determining the effects integrating Personalized Learning Environment on students’ achievement in social studies in secondary schools in Imo State, Nigeria. A Qusi-experimental research design with non-equivalent intact groups, pre-test and post- test was adopted in this study. The population of the study comprised the entireUpper Basic( Junior Secondary School) students of 94,963 with 47,481 male and 48,481 female in the 68 secondary schools in Owerri Zone 1 of Imo State. Purposive sampling technique was used as the sample techniques. 39 Jss 2 students (19 male and 20 female) in one school were in treatment one (personalised learning environment) group, while 43 Jss 2 students (21 male and 22 female in the school were in treatment two (lecture method) group. The instrument for data collection was Researcher Made Social Studies Achievement Test (RMSSAT). The items in the instrument were subjected to content and face validation by five specialists, three specialists from Educational Measurement and Evaluation and two from Educatonal technology. The reliability of the research instrument was established using Kuder-Richardson (K-20) and this gave a reliability coefficient of 0.86. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) F- test statistics at 0.05 level of significance was used to interpret the result. From data analysed, the findings from study are: Personal Learning environment is effective in the improvement of students’ academic achievement and also revealed that personal learning is more effective on the male students than on the female students. The study recommended among others that: since the use of personalized learning environment has been found to enhance achievement in social studies, teachers of social studies should employ this technologically enriched method to teach students in the classroom more ewspecially those abstract to topics.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Depositing User:	Professor Mark T. Owen
Date Deposited:	02 Apr 2024 20:32
Last Modified:	02 Apr 2024 20:32
URI:	https://tudr.org/id/eprint/2865

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