Development of expertise in science at basic schools: The effect of first principles of instruction with computer animation and chart and their functional effect on gender
Development of expertise in science at basic schools: The effect of first principles of instruction with computer animation and chart and their functional effect on gender
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Date
2021
Authors
Amankwah, Francis
Mensah, Francis Owusu
Sarfo, Frederick Kwaku
Debrah, Patrick
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Cogent Education
Abstract
The study was designed to investigate the impact of First Principles of
Instruction (FPI) with computer animation and chart, and their functional effect on
gender to acquire expertise in science in Junior High School (JHS). The content for
the treatments was selected from JHS integrated science syllabus. The contents of
the instructional media were designed in line with the specifications of Principles of
Multimedia Learning (PML). All the learning tasks for the two treatments were
designed based on FPI. Eighty- seven second-year JHS students (male = 48,
female = 39) with a mean age of 14.4 years were randomly assigned to the two
treatments. Ateacher was trained to deliver the content. The main study consisted
of three sessions, which were delivered in the regular classroom and computer laboratory. Paired-sample and independent t-tests and univariate analyses were
used to analyze the data. The result showed that there was no statistically sig nificant difference between the two treatments. In addition, the result revealed no
significant interaction effect on gender and the two treatments for the acquisition
of expertise in science at the basic school. The findings are novel and suggest that
static/inexpensive instructional media (e.g.chart) carefully designed with specifica tions of PML integrated withFPI is equally effective as dynamic instructional media
(e.g., computer animation) for the development of expertise in science in the
context of traditional classrooms of basic schools irrespective of the gender of the
students.
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Sarfo, F. K., Debrah, P., Amankwah, F., & Owusu Mensah, F. (2022). Development of expertise in science at basic schools: The effect of first principles of instruction with computer animation and chart and their functional effect on gender. Cogent Education, 9(1), 2016557.