IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL BLOGGING EXPOSURE ON KAURA-NAMODA POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS’ WRITTEN NARRATIVE ESSAY ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA
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educational blogging exposure to obtain answers to research questions and testing of the Null hypotheses. The technique was sampling system in which Federal Polytechnic Kaura-Namoda was selected based on their location in North West Zone. Also, the selections of
ND11 students was through the stratified random sampling technique. But to ensure adequate representation of the students, the cluster sampling technique was derived from the strata. A purposive method also was adopted to determine the number of students in the selection in Federal Polytechnic Kaura-Namoda. These item comprised (narrative essays) in various exercises based on the lecture notes online blog page (https://khadijatannyusuf1.blogspot,com) for experimental group while the control group were taught in a conventional method within the period of first semester. The data collected were analyzed statistically using both descriptive and inferential analysis of the research questions and the null hypotheses. The research questions were analyzed using means and standard deviations while the null hypotheses were analyzed using independent samples t-test. Findings revealed that there was a significant mean difference for educational blogging exposure impact on Kaura-Namoda polytechnic students’ written narrative essay academic
performance while significant mean difference was not found for those not exposed to it. The study recommended that lecturers teaching English Language in polytechnics should incorporate educational blogging in their teaching and learning to guarantee better
academic performance of Polytechnic students.
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