The effect of multimedia courseware in solving common fractions to Junior High School two pupils of Sunyani garrison schools - Ghana

Abstract

The focus of this study was to investigate the computer proficiency of students and the effect to which its integration will affect instruction. It also determined if there exist significant difference in the mean score between students in the experimental group and control group on the post-test. The study used Technological Pedagogical Knowledge Framework by Mishra and Koehler (2006) as the conceptual base. The population was composed of 120 junior high school pupils of JHS two (2) from three Garrison clusters of schools in the Sunyani Municipality. Using a pre-test and post-test and questionnaire adapted, data was collected to address the research questions. The findings revealed that most of the students had positive attitude towards learning of mathematics. Furthermore, a mean of means of M = 3.41; and SD = 0.71 was obtained to signify that students in the experimental group had interest and satisfaction with the use of an interactive multimedia courseware in learning mathematics. Also, the result from the paired sample t-test showed that there was no statistical significant difference between the mean performance of pupils using post-test by control and experimental groups. The study recommends that Mathematics teachers should be made to attend more professional and refresher course and programmes on the use of interactive courseware for the teaching and learning of Mathematics.