Flipped Instructional Strategy: Its Interaction Effect on Students Achievement And Engagement In High School Test And Measurement Course

Abstract

Flipped instructional strategy involves organizing learning activities outside of the classroom before or after the lesson period with the aid of technology-based devices so that the instruction period is used for another activity. We investigated the interaction effect of flipped instructional strategy on 3rd year Nigeria Certificate in Education Integrated Science Education students` achievement and engagement in Test and Measurement Course in higher institutions of learning. Pretest, post-test non-equivalent group quasi-experimental research design was employed for the study. The subjects of the study comprised of 60 male and 60 female integrated science Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) 3rd year students offering Test and Measurement Course involving simple random and purposive random sampling techniques. Test and Measurement Achievement Test (TMAT) and Test and Measurement Academic Engagement Scale (TMAES) instruments were used for data collection. The two instruments were trial tested and the reliability indices were determined to be 0.73 and 0.88 using Kuder-Richardson formula K-R20 and Cronbach alpha methods respectively. The data collected in this study were subjected to statistical analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23. Descriptive statistics of Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses. The result shows that male students achieve higher than females when taught using flipped instructional strategy in the test and measurement course. The result also revealed that the interaction effects of instructional strategies and gender on the academic engagement of students in Test and Measurement course was not significant. The results of our study thus represent an important contribution to the field of pedagogy and general didactics at tertiary education levels.