Awareness, Utilization, and Students’ Attitudes Toward YouTube in Learning Mathematical Concepts in Ikom LGA, Cross River State, Nigeria
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.63561/fnas-jmse.v6i3.905Keywords:
YouTube, Mathematical Concepts, Student Attitudes, Learning Resources, Education TechnologyAbstract
This study assessed awareness, utilization and students’ attitudes towards YouTube in learning Mathematical concepts in Ikom LGA, Cross River State, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. This study adopts a descriptive survey design. This design enabled the researchers to obtain information from a representative sample of the population. A stratified sampling technique was used to select a sample of 110 secondary school students from a population of 3150 public secondary school students in Ikom LGA. Two instruments were used for data collection termed Mathematical Concepts Performance Test (MCPT and the questionnaire tagged ‘Awareness, Utilization and Students’ Attitude towards YouTube Questionnaire (AUSATYQ)’. To determine the reliability of the instruments, Kuder Richardson (KR - 21) reliability method was used for the ‘MCPT’ and Cronbach Alpha method for the ‘AUSATYQ’. Data were dully coded and analyzed for appropriate statistical measures. Frequency count and simple percentages were used to analyze the data, to answer the research questions, while independent t-test analysis was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that there was a significant influence of the awareness of YouTube on students’ academic performance in learning Mathematical concepts in the study area; utilization of YouTube has no significant influence on students’ academic performance in learning Mathematical concepts in the study area. Also, the finding revealed that attitude significantly influences students’ academic performance in learning Mathematical concepts using YouTube in the study area. It was recommended among others that the Government and school authorities organize in-service training of teachers on basic computer applications.
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