Enhancing Technical School students’ Interest in Electricity using E- learning Teaching activities in Benue state.

Abstract

The study determine the impact of e-leaning teaching activities on the interest of technical school students in electricity, the study involves 724 part II students consisted of 543 male and 181 female students. Two research questions and two hypotheses were asked and formulated respectively. The electricity interest inventory was used to collect data with two lesson plans of which one was for the experimental group and one for control group. Two research questions were answered using the mean and standard deviation. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using analysis of covariance. The results from the study revealed that students exposed to the ELTA showed greater interest in electricity contents than those taught with lecture method. It also revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean interest scores of male and female technical school students. The study recommended this approach to be adopted in schools and the training of teachers in every subject area.