Abstract
This study examined the effectiveness of flip classroom and project method instructional delivery on students' academic performance in fishery in Universities in South East Nigeria. Quasi experimental design was adopted. Five objectives were formulated. Five research questions were formulated and five null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population was made up of 919 students from five federal, five state and nine private universities in South East Nigeria. The sample for the study was 87 which comprised of 33 males and 54 females. The study focused on the five federal universities that offer fishery from the nineteen universities in the South East. Simple random sampling technique was used to select two universities out of the 5 federal universities in South East that was studied. These universities were the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (30) and Federal University of Technology, Owerri (57). Fishery cognitive performance test (FCPT); Fishery Psychomotor Performance Test (FPPT), and Fishery Interest Inventory (FII) were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by five experts from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and 87 copies were distributed through direct delivery technique with the help of three research assistants and 100 percent return rate was recorded. The reliability was obtained using Kuder Richardson formula 20(K-R 20) with internal consistency of 0.791 for FCPT, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used to find the coefficient of stability of the FCPT at 0.766 and Cronbach Alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of FPPT and FII which yielded 0.824 for FPPT and 0.716 for FII. The data obtained were analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The result favoured those taught with flip classroom method.
Keywords: Fishery, Academic performance, Flip classroom and Project instructional delivery method
Publication Date: 2023-12-09