Effect of Technological Learning Environments on Male and Female Senior Secondary School Two Students’ Performance and Retention in English Grammar in Enugu State

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The study investigated the Effect of Technological Learning Environments on Senior Secondary School Students’ Performance and Retention in English Grammar in Enugu State. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design which involved pretest, posttest, control and experimental groups. There was a follow-up test after four weeks of administering the posttest which was used to test retention. The population of the study was one thousand nine hundred and eight senior secondary two students in nine public senior secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State that were enrolled in the 2019/2020 academic session. The sample size was 250 senior secondary two students from three selected public senior secondary schools. The three schools represented two experimental groups and one control group. A Researcher Made Achievement Test titled Performance and Retention Achievement Test contained forty multiple-choice questions. The reliability of the instrument was tested using a test-retest method and the result obtained was analysed using Kuder-Richardson Formula 21 to determine the consistency of the instrument. A reliability index of 0.83 was obtained which was high enough to consider the instrument reliable. The study was guided by two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses. Mean standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while t-test, One-way and Two-way Analysis of Covariance were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study concludes that the 21st-century style of learning allows the learners to be in charge of their learning with the teacher as a facilitator despite the gender influence. The study recommended that irrespective of the gender influence, Google Classroom Communicative Strategy and Edmodo Communicative Strategy should be used to teach English Grammar in senior secondary in Enugu North Local Government of Enugu State.

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