Effects of Access Database Management System Hands-on Experience on Students’ Academic Achievement and SelfEfficacy in Database Management
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https://doi.org/10.61841/82gmw284Keywords:
Economics education, Databank management, Hands-on-experience, Achievement, Self-efficacyAbstract
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of access database management system’s
hands-on experience on students’ achievement, interest and self-efficacy in database
management in economics education. Quasi-experimental design specifying pre-test post-test
control group design was adopted. The sample size was 72 students from two purposively
selected intact classes. Simple random sampling technique was used to assign the classes, one to
control group and the other to the experimental group. Three research questions and two null
hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Validated and trial-tested Databank Management
Achievement Test (DMAT) was used for data collection for both the pretest and posttest while
Validated Databank Management Interest Inventory (DMII) and Databank Management Self
Efficacy Scale (DMSS) were used to collect data on students’ interest in Databank Management
and students’ self-efficacy belief in Databank Management respectively. Mean and standard
deviation were used to answer research questions and analysis of covariance used to test the null
hypothesis at 0.05 probability level. The result proved that Access Hands-on Experience
approach is more efficacious in enhancing students’ achievement, interest and self-efficacy
believe in Databank Management than the lecture method. It was recommended that Hands-on
Experience should be encouraged in teaching Databank Management in tertiary institutions and
that its use should be popularized through workshops, seminars and conferences
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