EFFECT OF GEOGEBRA APPLICATION ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS IN AKWA IBOM STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of GeoGebra application on academic achievement and interest of junior secondary students in Mathematics in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a pretest, posttest quasi experimental design. The population consisted of 13,157 junior secondary two (JS2) Students made up of 5,876 males and 7,281 females. Two schools were purposively sampled and simple random sampling technique (toss of coin) were used in selecting two intact classes of junior secondary two (JS2) Students of 2021/2022 academic session for experimental and control groups. Two validated instruments Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) and Mathematics Interest Scale (MIS)were used for the data collection in the study. KuderRichardson Twenty (K-R)20 formula was used to determine the reliability coefficient of 0.85. The research questions were answered by descriptive statistics; mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) statistic at p < 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed a significant difference between the achievement of the experimental group and control group in favour of the experimental group. The result also showed that the use of GeoGebra enhanced greater motivation and positive attitude towards mathematics. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Mathematics teachers should intensively employ the use of Mathematical software such as GeoGebra that will actively involve both the teachers and students during teaching learning processes.