Effect of Interactive Engagement Strategy on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Metelwork in Ekiti State, Nigeria

This study was designed to investigate the effect of interactive engagement strategy on the performance of secondary school students in metal work in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study adopted a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test non-equivalent experimental and control group design which involved groups of students in their intact classes was adopted. The population for the study was all 11 SSS II students offering metal work in all Senior Secondary Schools in Ekiti State. One research questions and one null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The instrument used for data collection was the interactive engagement Strategy (IES) questionnaire, The IES instrument was subjected to face and content validation by three experts. The trial test for determining the coefficient of internal consistency and stability of the instrument was carried out using Pearson Product Moment correlation statistics, Kudder –Richardson-20. (K-R.20), the value was found to be 0.75. Mean was used to answer the research question, while ANCOVA was employed to test the hypothesis. The result of the study indicated that there was no significant difference between the effect of interactive engagement strategy and the conventional technique on students’ achievement in metalwork. A slight improvement was however observed in the achievement scores of students exposed to interactive engagement strategy. Recommendation was given on the usage of the teaching strategy at the secondary school level.