Perceived Influence of Digital Instructional Media Utilization on Postgraduate Educational Management Students’ Academic Performance in Rivers State Universities

The study investigated perceived influence of digital instructional media utilization on postgraduate Educational Management students’ academic performance in Rivers State universities. Two specific objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. This study adopted descriptive survey design. The population of the study was all 145 postgraduate Educational Management students in Rivers State Universities. The study used the entire population of the students as it was manageable in size The data collecting instrument for this study is a self-structured questionnaire titled “Perceived Influence of Digital Instructional Media Utilization on Postgraduate Educational Management Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire” The instrument was structured using 4-point rating scale and was face and content validated by the researcher’s supervisor and two experts in Measurement and Evaluation in Rivers State University. The instrument was tested for reliability using Cronbach Alpha Statistics and the scores collated yielded an average reliability index of 0.81. All the 145 copies of the questionnaire administered were retrieved and used for the study. Mean and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions while the null hypotheses were tested using z-test at 0.05 level of significance with a critical value of ±1.96. Findings revealed that utilization of Google classroom and digital textbooks in instructional delivery influence students’ academic performance in Rivers State universities to a high extent. Based on the findings, it was recommended among Google classroom should be adopted as a means for instructional delivery including the provision of necessary infrastructural support for it to strive and government should ensure adequate support for the use of digital textbooks and ensure that all students have equal access to them.