EFFECTS OF INTEGRATION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TEACHING STRATEGY ON THE INTEREST OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS IN SENIOR SECONDARY MATHEMATICS IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Dr. U. S. Anaduaka and Hassan Suleiman

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of integration of mobile technology teaching strategy on the interest of male and female students in mathematics in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. The study adopted a pretest posttest control group, quasi-experimental design comprising two groups made up of experimental group and control group. The sample of the study consisted of 300 Senior Secondary Two (SS2) students drawn from two co-educational schools in the Local Government Area. There were 155 students in the experimental group and 145 students in the control group. The experimental group was taught mathematics topics with mobile technology integration teaching strategy and the control group was taught the same topics with conventional teaching method. The instrument used for data collection was a Mathematics Interest Inventory (MII) with reliability index of 0.70. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and ANCOVA statistical tool to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that there was a significant difference in the interest scores of students taught mathematics with integration of mobile technology teaching strategy (experimental group) and their counterpart taught with conventional teaching method (control group) in favour of the experimental group. It also revealed that there was no significant difference in the interest scores of male and female students taught mathematics with integration of mobile technology teaching strategy. Based on the findings, recommendations were made on the need to be integrate use mobile technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Keywords: Teaching Strategy, Mobile Technology, Students Interest and Integration.