Interactive/Smart Whiteboard and Student-Teachers Academic Performance in Educational Technology at the University of Calabar, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the effect of the use of interactive or smart whiteboard on student teachers’ academic performance in educational technology. Two objectives, research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A non-randomized pre-test post- test experimental design was adopted with a total of 110 second year educational technology students as sample. Educational Technology Performance Test (ETPT) with a reliability co-efficient of 0.75 obtained from Kuder Richardson formula 21 was used in generating data for the study, Descriptive statistics of Mean, Standard Deviation and Analysis of Covariance were used in analysis of data. Findings from the study showed that the use of interactive whiteboard was more effective in enhancing students’ performance than the traditional whiteboard. The result also showed that there was no significant difference between the academic performance of male and female students who used the Smart board. Based on the research findings it was recommended that university managements should be encouraged to install Interactive whiteboards in classrooms and teachers should be sent on training on the use of these smart boards for instructional delivery.