THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTER ANIMATION INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND ACHIEVEMENT IN CHEMICAL BONDING IN SHENDAM, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT: The study examined the effects of animation instructional strategy (ANIS) on senior secondaryone chemistry students’ interest and achievement in chemical bonding in Shendam – Nigeria. It adopted a pretest– posttest – control group design. A student sample of 74 was drawn from two coeducational schools from apopulation of 2550 students. Two instruments – the chemistry achievement test (CAT, r =0.899) and interestinventory test (IIT, r =0.755) were used for data collection. Four research questions and hypotheses guided thestudy. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses weretested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test. The study revealed a significant difference between the meaninterest scores of experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group. It also revealed asignificant difference between the achievement of students in the experimental group and the control group.There was neither a significant difference between the interest mean scores of male and female students taughtusing ANIS nor between the achievements of male and female students taught using ANIS. The studyrecommended the use of ANIS for teaching chemistry concepts involving movement of particles and thetraining of chemistry teachers in the production of suitable animation packages.

Keywords: achievement, animation, chemical bonding,interest, strategy