Instructional Captioned Film, Conventional Sign Method And Academic Performance Of Hearing Impaired Students In Economics In Special Schools In Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

The study was carried out to examine the effect of Instructional Captioned Film on academic performance of hearing impaired student in economics as compared with conventional sign methods in a Special School in  Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.  Non-randomised pretest posttest design was adopted. To achieve the objectives of the study therefore 37 SS I economics students in Special School in Uyo Local Government Area were used as the sample for the study.  The subjects were divided into experimental and control groups. Experimental group were treated with instructional captioned film while control group were treated with conventional sign method. Economics Performance Test (EPT) was used for data collection.  Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested using the Analysis of Covariance at 0.05 significant level. The result revealed that there is an overall significant difference of hearing impaired students academic performance when taught with the use Instructional Captioned Film and those taught using conventional sign method. It was also revealed that gender does not significantly influence academic performance of hearing impaired economics students.  The study therefore recommended the use of Instructional Captioned Film for teaching the hearing impaired students in Special School in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Keywords:  Instructional Captioned Film, Conventional Sign Language, SSI Hearing Impaired Economic Students, and Academic Performance

Digital Media and Information Dissemination in Tertiary Institutions in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

This study digital Media and Information Dissemination in Tertiary Institutions Akwa lbom State. Nigeria sought to determine the extent to which electronic media (e-mail, voice-mail, picture message. and live calls) influence organizational communication in tertiary institutions in the study area. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. Four specify objectives, and a research question were raised and translated into a research hypothesis for testing at .05 level of significance. Conceptual and empirical review of literature indicated that digital media is likely to affect organization communication among staff of tertiary institutions at horizontal and vertical communication patterns. A researcher made instrument called Digital Media Interaction Scale (DMIS) with reliability coefficient of .87 using cronbach Alpha was 752 respondents representing 10% of the study population was used. They were selected using stratified and random sampling techniques where the five governments owned tertiary educational institutions in the study area formed strata. Data collected were analyzed using percentages and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The results show that digital communication media have significant influence, ensure more effective and transactional organizational communication at diverse degrees of intensity and reach depending on authority structure and line staff within the institutions examined. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended among others that staff of tertiary academic institutions should be encouraged to use digital communication media to boost effective and efficient communication