Effects of Blended Learning Approach on Senior Secondary Students’ Interest and Achievement in Economics in Bauchi Local Government Area, Nigeria

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This study determined the effect of blended learning approach on students' ‘interest and academic achievement in senior secondary schools in Bauchi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Two research questions were answered, and two hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance. A quasi-experimental, non-randomized pre-test, post-test control group research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 10 secondary schools with 1070 SSII students that offered economics in Bauchi L.G.A. in 2023. The sample size was made up of 51 intact SS2 intact classes from two co-educational schools. A simple random sampling technique was adopted to select two schools, and SSII students offering Economics were used in their intact classes. School A was used as an experimental group, while School B was used as a control group. Students in the experimental group were enrolled in a learning management system (WhatsApp), which served as the virtual learning environment for the blended learning approach. The instrument for data collection was an achievement test titled Economics Learner Achievement Test (ELAT), which contained 25 items covering four topics in economics, and an interest scale titled Economics Learner Interest Scale (ELIS), which contained 20 items. The instrument was administered as a pre-test to both the experimental and control groups. The teaching approaches were applied for five weeks, after which the post-test was administered. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that a blended learning approach had a significant effect on students’ interest and achievement in economics. It was recommended, among others, that technology, if used adequately and wisel

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