Authors :
Margaret Samuelson Udoh
Volume/Issue :
Volume 8 - 2023, Issue 4 - April
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7902134
Abstract :
The study investigated the effect of Advance
Organizer (AO’s) on secondary school students
performance and retention in English Language
comprehension using a quasi- experimental design of the
pretest, posttest control type. A total of 90 SSII students
were purposively sampled from three public secondary
schools in Rivers State. From a population of 3200. The
experimental group consisted of 30 students each while the
control group had 30 students. A teacher-made Graphics
and Pictorial Advance Organizers .were used to intervene
on student’s pre-test performance and the conventional
Lecture approach of the control group. Students ’
performance and post-delayed test were based on the West
African Examination council (WAEC,
1998)Comprehension question. Descriptive statistics of
mean was used to answer the research questions while the
inferential statistics of t-test and analysis of significance
level, there is a significant difference in performance
between students taught using the Graphics Advance
organizer (GA0) and pictorial Advance Organizer (PAO)
and those taught using conventional Lecture Method.
Furthermore, there is a significant difference between the
retention of students reading comprehension, taught using
the advance organizers. However, the pictorial advance
organizer showed greater potency in facilitating reading
comprehension among the students. It is therefore
recommended that Pictorial Advance Organizers (PAO) b
e used in teaching reading comprehension, in order to
improve students’ performance and retention in English
language comprehension
Keywords :
Advance Organizers, Graphics, Pictorial, Performance, Retention Comprehension.
The study investigated the effect of Advance
Organizer (AO’s) on secondary school students
performance and retention in English Language
comprehension using a quasi- experimental design of the
pretest, posttest control type. A total of 90 SSII students
were purposively sampled from three public secondary
schools in Rivers State. From a population of 3200. The
experimental group consisted of 30 students each while the
control group had 30 students. A teacher-made Graphics
and Pictorial Advance Organizers .were used to intervene
on student’s pre-test performance and the conventional
Lecture approach of the control group. Students ’
performance and post-delayed test were based on the West
African Examination council (WAEC,
1998)Comprehension question. Descriptive statistics of
mean was used to answer the research questions while the
inferential statistics of t-test and analysis of significance
level, there is a significant difference in performance
between students taught using the Graphics Advance
organizer (GA0) and pictorial Advance Organizer (PAO)
and those taught using conventional Lecture Method.
Furthermore, there is a significant difference between the
retention of students reading comprehension, taught using
the advance organizers. However, the pictorial advance
organizer showed greater potency in facilitating reading
comprehension among the students. It is therefore
recommended that Pictorial Advance Organizers (PAO) b
e used in teaching reading comprehension, in order to
improve students’ performance and retention in English
language comprehension
Keywords :
Advance Organizers, Graphics, Pictorial, Performance, Retention Comprehension.
