AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN FRENCH LANGUAGE IN PUBLIC JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IMO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study examined availability and utilization of multimedia resources on students' achievement in French language in public junior secondary schools in Imo State, Nigeria. Two research questions were asked and one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study consists of 78,626 students in 273 public junior secondary schools in Imo State. Taro Yamane formula was used to determine a sample of 398 JS II students from 20 selected public junior secondary schools in the study area using stratified sampling technique. The stratified sampling technique allows the researcher to group the students in different strata. The instruments for data collection were a checklist titled, Availability of Multimedia Resources Checklist (AMRC) and a self-constructed rating scale titled “Utilization of Multimedia Resources on Students' Achievement in French Language Scale (UMRSAFLS) which contained 20 items. The instrument was validated by three research specialists. Reliability coefficient of 0.81 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha statistics. Research questions were answered using simple percentage, mean and standard deviation statistics while the hypothesis was tested using t-test statistics. The result revealed that multimedia resources such as internet, multimedia projector, computer, webinar zoom meet, interactive whiteboard, video/teleconferencing, blog and e-books were unavailable for students’ achievement in French language. It was also revealed that there is a low but significant level of utilization of multimedia resources for students’ achievement in French language in secondary schools in Imo State. Based on the results, it was recommended among others that Imo State Government should provide adequate funds for the procurement and maintenance of multimedia resources in order to ensure that they are made available for the improvement of students’ performance in schools.