EFFECT OF COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION ON STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE WORKS TRADE IN GOVERNMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES IN GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA

The study was to determine the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) on students’ academic performance in electrical installation and maintenance work trade (EIMWT) in government science and technical colleges in Gombe state, Nigeria. Two specific purposes, two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted pre-test, post-test, non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental research design. The population of the study was 270 NTC students from seven government science and technical colleges in Gombe state offering EIMWT. The sample of the study was 110 NTC II EIMWT students from two technical colleges in Gombe state selected through purposive sampling technique. Electrical installation and maintenance work trade academic performance test (EIMWTAPET) was used as instrument for data collection; the instrument was validated by three experts and has reliability coefficient of 0.78. The experimental group was taught using CAI package while control group was exposed to traditional teaching method. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study reveals that Students taught electrical wiring tools and accessories using CAI had a higher mean score in post-test than those students taught using the lecture method in the test. The two null hypotheses were rejected. Based on the findings it was recommended among others that, Ministry of education should give more attention to computer literacy and operation in the technical colleges and relevant CAI packages should be developed for use within the Gombe state.