Effects of Instructional Scaffolding on the Achievement of Male and Female Students in Financial Accounting in Secondary Schools in Abakaliki Urban of Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Nonye Azih ； B. O. Nwosu

《Current Research Journal of Social Sciences》 3卷2期 (2011/03) Pp. 66-70

並列摘要

This study was carried out to investigate the effects of instructional scaffolding on the achievement of male and female students in financial accounting in Abakaliki Urban of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. A pretest, posttest, control group, non randomized quasi experimental design was used in this study. The population of the study comprised all SS II students in all the secondary schools in Abakaliki Urban offering financial accounting. Four secondary schools were selected out of the fourteen secondary schools in Abakaliki offering financial accounting. Two schools were assigned to the treatment group while the other two were assigned to the control group. A total of one hundred and sixty-three (163) students offering financial accounting were used for the study. Two instructional packages were developed, one for the treatment group and the other was subjected to the conventional method of teaching financial accounting. The financial accounting achievement test was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation while the analysis of co-variance was used to test the hypothesis. Summary of result revealed that instructional scaffolding method was superior to the conventional method in improving the achievement of male and female students in financial accounting. The test of interaction showed that gender had no significant interaction with teaching approach on students mean achievement. It was concluded that instructional scaffolding is a good teaching method for teaching financial accounting and the researcher recommended that financial accounting lessons should be scaffolded irrespective of the gender of the students.

並列關鍵字

Accounting ； achievement ； effects ； financial ； instructional ； scaffolding