EFFECT OF PICTURES SUPPORTED WITH AUDIO – TAPED INSTRUCTION ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN HISTORY

This study examined the effect of pictures supported with audio taped instruction on students’ achievement in selected History contents. Students taught using pictures supported with audio-taped instruction were compared with their counterparts taught conventionally, to ascertain whether differences exist in their mean achievement scores. A simple random sampling technique was used to draw two intact classes of SSI history students from two co-educational schools and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. History Achievement test (HAT) was used to elicit responses from the treatment and control groups. The result showed that experimental group produced higher mean achievement score than the control group taught conventionally. The female students taught using pictures supported with audio tapes had higher posttest mean score when compared to male students taught using the same approach. An important conclusion emanating from the study is that pictures supported with audio taped are plausible strategy for teaching history at the secondary school level in Nigeria.