Interactive Whiteboards Usage and Educational Technology student’s Academic Performance in the University of Calabar. Nigeria

This study set out to investigate the difference in mean score of students‘ academic performance between those taught using interactive white board (IWB) and those taught using expository methods in the department of Educational Technology in the University of Calabar, Nigeria. The study adopted the quasi experimental approach, where 81 students of 3rd year Educational Technology form the sample for the study from a population of 124 students. Purposeful sampling was done since the population was fair enough for the researcher to manage comfortably well. 81 students actually participated in the study. The instrument for data collection was the Educational Technology Performance Test (ETPT). 41 students formed the experimental group, taught using interactive white board, while 40 students formed the control group taught using the expository methods. The instrument was validated and its reliability coefficient was done using split half and correlation analysis to establish the instrument‘s reliability of .949 for the Educational Technology Performance Test (ETPT). Using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), the result obtained revealed the mean difference in academic performance of students taught using interactive whiteboard to be 25.91, while those taught with the expository Method was 16.58, implying that students taught with the interactive whiteboard performed better than students taught with the expository method. It was concluded that interactive whiteboard did enhance the academic performance of Educational Technology students‘ in the University of Calabar, Nigeria. It was recommended among others that Educational Technology lecturers should be exposed to the process and ways of using interactive white board for effective teaching and learning in the University of Calabar and beyond.

Keywords: Interactive White board, expository method, Educational Technology, Academic Performance, Animation