Effect of Zoom Teaching and Physical Lecture Method on Undergraduate Students’ Academic Achievement and Interest in Health Education in Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu

Abstract

The study sought to determine the effect of Zoom teaching and physical lecture method on undergraduate students’ academic achievement and interest in Health Education in Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu. Pretest, posttest quasi experimental design format was used. The population consisted of 33 (10 males and 23 females) 100 level undergraduate students in the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, ESUT, Enugu. A total of 33 male and female 100 level undergraduate students in the Department of HKHE served as research participants hence census sampling techniques was applied. Two instruments namely Health Education Achievement Test (HEAT) and Health Education Interest Inventory Scale (HEIIS) (adapted) were used for data collection. The 100 level students who had not been previously exposed to the teaching areas used for the study (determinants of health) were taught 4 topics one topic per week for 4 weeks using physical lecture and zoom. A one day briefing was organized to familiarize the participants and the resource persons with the teaching processes. Pretest for both the experimental and the control groups followed the briefing. The experimental groups were exposed to the two methods for 4 weeks after which posttest was conducted immediately using joggled question items for HEAT for both the experimental and control groups. The research questions were answered using mean and SD while the hypotheses were tested with analysis of covariance at .05 level of significance. It was concluded that using lecture via online medium such as zoom facilitates greater academic achievement and interest than physical lecture method in Health Education. The recommendations among others included that the ESUT management should as a matter of urgency introduce and equip every Department in the university with functional ICT centre as well as qualified personnel, equipment, facilities and supplies for the purposes of taking lectures via zoom. There is need to explore other online medium in addition to zoom in order to sustain the already existing high academic achievement and interest in HED via online.