EFFECT OF COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The Problem under investigation was “Affect of Computer Assisted Instructions on the Academic achievement and Interest of secondary school students”. Significance of this study was to know that whether the computer assisted instructions method of teaching had positive effect on the academic achievement and interest of the secondary school students, so that this method could be implemented at the secondary level. For the said purpose an experiment was performed at the university wensam college Dera Ismail Khan. Two equal groups of students were made on the basis of pre-test, one control group was taught by the traditional lecture method and the other experimental group was taught by the computer assisted instruction method. Post achievement test was conducted after one month teaching and the data was analyzed. The interest of the students in the two different methods of teaching was calculated by the interest inventory. Findings of the study show that the experimental group performed much more better than the control group in the academic achievement test. Moreover the interest score of the experimental group was higher than the control group. Therefore it was concluded that the computer assisted method of instruction has positive effect on the academic achievement and the interest of the students at secondary level. It was suggested that the study might be conducted at the primary level in the schools.