EFFECT OF BLENDED LEARNING ON BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN WORD PROCESSING IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN GOMBE STATE

The integration of Information and Communication Technologies in teaching and learning process is reshaping the way and manner teachers interact with their students beyond the physical four walls of a classroom environment. This study adopted the quasi-experimental research design which uses non-randomized group and these options occur when the researcher cannot randomly sample and assign intact or pre-existing group will be used. The study was conducted in the two Colleges of Education in Gombe State. Federal College of Education (Technical) Gombe and College of Education Billiri, Gombe State. To analyze the results, Means and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions that guided the study, while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test statistics and Analysis of Covariance ANCOVA at 0.05 level of significance. Any P-Value greater than 0.05 was accepted while any P-value less than 0.05 was rejected. Analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Based on the findings and implications of this study, the following recommendations were made. Business Education lecturers should adopt the use of blended learning instructional method in teaching and learning of word processing and in order to this perfectly, they should learn the process of doing it. Also, blended learning instructional method should be used as a medium of instruction at all levels of the Nigerian educational system as part of their teaching methods The Federal and State Government in collaboration with private sector should provide ICT facilities and resources adequately to implement blended instructional strategy in all Colleges of Education.