Abstract

The rapidly changing technological developments have affected education as it does every other field of human endeavour. The number of technology applications used in education increases every day. One of these tools is web-based multimedia package. The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of web-based multimedia package in electrical power and machines in Colleges of Education in North east Nigeria. Quasi- experimental design was used in the study with experimental and control group. The sample used in the study consisted of 120 students from two Colleges of Education: Federal college of Education (tech), Gombe as the experimental group and Federal College of Education (tech) Potiskum as the control group. While the experimental group was taught using web-based multimedia package, the control group was taught using lecture method. Electrical power and machines achievement test (EPMAT) was used to collect data after being validated by experts and pilot- tested to ensure its reliability which was found to be 0.791 Four research questions and hypothesis were formulated and analyzed using mean and t-test respectively. The data collected from the achievement test was analyzed with SPSS program. At the end of the study, it was concluded that web-based multimedia package increased the academic achievement of students in electrical power and machines compare to the lecture method.