Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study is titled Effects of Audio-Visual Instructional Resources on Academic Performance of Upper Basic Students in Zaria Education Zone, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two null hypotheses. The design of the study was the non-equivalent pre-test and posttest comparison group. The population of the study consisted of 26322 JSS students in Zaria Education Zone, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study purposively used 120 JSSIII students from GJSS, Aminu and GJSS Tudun-Jukun, Zaria as experimental and control groups respectively. This study used teacher-made test known as ‘Social Studies Achievement Test (SOSSAT) as data collection instrument. The instrument was duly validated by experts and has reliability coefficient of 0.87 obtained using Guttmann split half method. The arithmetic mean and standard deviation were used to answer the questions by the study while independent sample t-test statistic was used to test the study’s null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha. The researchers found that JSS III students taught with lecture technique supplemented by audio-visuals out-performed their counterparts taught with lecture technique only and that lecture technique aided by television (audio-visual) has shown to be gender friendly. In the light of the findings it is recommended among others the need for Social Studies teachers to use audio-visual aids in their classrooms for their students for optimum academic performance.