Abstract:
The study focused on improving the teaching and learning of accounting with
ICT (audio-visual materials) to promote interactivity in Senior High School
(SHS) classrooms in Ghana. The research approach for the study was designbased
research, using qualitative and quantitative methods. The design-based
research approach consisted offour phases as conceive, build, test and reflection
and documentation phases. Questionnaires, observations, semi-structured
interviews, focus group discussions, student tests and designed lesson artefacts
were the data sources employed in this study to track how the pre-service
accounting teachers (PSATs) developed their pedagogical strategies to teach
with ICT in an interactive manner. The study revealed the incorporation of
audio-visual materials, the use of collaborative learning approach, activityoriented
and knowledge of technology as the features of ICT intervention to
promote interactivity in SHS accounting classroom. The intervention proved to
be effective in the development of the PSATs pedagogical strategies because it
reflected all the four constructs (Active, Collaborative, Authentic and
Intentional) for measuring the effectiveness of the ICT intervention as
conceptualised in the study. The study concluded that the use of audio-visuals
in senior high school accounting lessons will have implications on the
availability of ICT resources and infrastructure such as availability of
computers, projectors, internet connectivity and access to electricity, among
others, in the school. This obviously will have financial implications on schools
and stakeholders ofeducation in the country. Lack oftechnology-based skills is
one of the main reasons why teachers shy away from using technology as most
of them seem to have gaps in their knowledge where ICT is concerned.
