EFFECT OF MULTIMEDIA ON MATHEMATICS TO ENHANCE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND RETENTION AT SECONDARY LEVEL STUDENT

Abstract

The growth of multimedia technology in society is reflected in policies to encourage the use of multimedia in education and the development of educational multimedia. Multimedia learning of mathematics encompasses learning from instructional material, both traditional and computer-based that combines words and pictures in the domain of mathematics. In secondary school, the instructor should consider the cognitive growth of the students when utilizing media to teach mathematics in addition to these two concepts. Because if arithmetic instruction is tailored to pupils' cognitive development, it will be more relevant. The development of multimedia-based mathematics learning media was included in research and development. This study investigates the effectiveness of multimedia on students’ performance in mathematics. The goal of this study is to determine of employing multimedia on students' academic performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine secondary school students' performance and retention in mathematics was influenced by a multimedia instructional technique. Two groups conventional (control) and experimental (based on multimedia) were generated from the research sample. While the students in the control groups were exposed to the traditional teaching approach on the same contents, the students in the experimental group were taught mathematics using a "multimedia instructional package" that had been installed on their school computers. The instrument's items were rearranged and given to both the experimental and control groups as a post-test after the treatment. Here, a total of 409 secondary school students' data were collected for study and were exposed to ANCOVA and t-Test statistics. However, intact classes were consciously divided into experimental and control groups. Consequently, adopted a quasi-experimental design. The study's pre-test, post-test, non-randomized, control group design is a type of quasi-experimental design. As a result, the quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test control group design was employed for this research. It employed the KR-20 Mathematics Achievement Test with a reliability coefficient. Students can learn at their own pace because of the inclusion of multimedia components in instructional materials. Student progress in maths disciplines is improved by learning with the incorporation of multimedia-mediated content, and it has also assisted students in better understanding science concepts and ideas. The findings of this study, depict that the integration of multimedia instructional strategy in mathematics is used to arouse students’ interest in mathematics, and the multimedia instructional package helps to concretize the learning of mathematics and makes learning more effective.

Keywords: Multimedia, Mathematics Learning, Secondary Level Student, Quasi-Experimental Design, Student Achievement, and Student Retention Level.