Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology
The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept
Diana Akantagriwon 1, Ezekiel Akotuko Ayimbila 2 * , Joshua Awuni 3
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1 Department of Science Education, St. Vincent College of Education, Yendi, Ghana
2 Department of Science Education, C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Ghana
3 Department of Science, Bongo Senior High School, Ghana
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Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology, Online First, pp. 1-16
https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759

Article Type: Research Article

Published Online: 03 Apr 2025

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ABSTRACT
The study investigated the impact of multimedia teaching strategy on students’ academic performance in the concept of circulatory system in Humans. The study adopted action research design. The sample size comprised of 60 science 2A level 200 students from St. Vincent College of Education. The study made use of only one group.  The group was taught using multimedia teaching method. Pre-intervention test was administered to students before the intervention. A post-intervention test was also administered to students after the students were taught using multimedia teaching method to determine the impact of the intervention. The mean gain between the pre-intervention and post-intervention test scores was found to be 6.62. Test results proved that there was statistically significant difference between the pre-intervention and post-intervention test scores of students. This proved that multimedia instructional method of teaching had a positive impact on students’ academic performance in circulatory system in humans. The study therefore recommended that multimedia teaching strategy should be embraced by biology facilitators for teaching circulatory system in humans and other biological concepts especially abstract ones in order to improve students understanding, application and academic performance.       
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Multimedia Teaching Strategy Blood Circulatory System Academic Performance
In-text citation: (Akantagriwon et al., 2025)
Reference: Akantagriwon, D., Ayimbila, E. A., & Awuni, J. (2025). The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept. Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
In-text citation: (1), (2), (3), etc.
Reference: Akantagriwon D, Ayimbila EA, Awuni J. The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept. Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology. 2025. https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
In-text citation: (1), (2), (3), etc.
Reference: Akantagriwon D, Ayimbila EA, Awuni J. The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept. Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology. 2025. https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
In-text citation: (Akantagriwon et al., 2025)
Reference: Akantagriwon, Diana, Ezekiel Akotuko Ayimbila, and Joshua Awuni. "The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept". Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology (2025). https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
In-text citation: (Akantagriwon et al., 2025)
Reference: Akantagriwon, D., Ayimbila, E. A., and Awuni, J. (2025). The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept. Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
In-text citation: (Akantagriwon et al., 2025)
Reference: Akantagriwon, Diana et al. "The impact of multimedia teaching strategies on students' academic performance in the human circulatory system concept". Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology, 2025. https://doi.org/10.33902/jpsp.202528759
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