• FOMSI, Esther Fabiawari
• NWANEKEZI-PHIL, Amarachi Genevive

Effective presentations using technology apps always have a positive impact on an audience. Not only does it sustain the interest of the audience but also motivates them to take action on an exhortation. This article examined the impact of integrating personalization design principles into PowerPoint presentations on the interest and performance of senior secondary school one (SS1) computer science students. Quasi experimental design was adopted for the study with a sample size of four hundred (400) students selected from private secondary schools in Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Two instruments were designed by the authors to answer the research questions and analyze the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance using mean, standard deviation and analysis of co-variance. One of the instruments was a 10-item questionnaire for determining the interest of the SS1 computer science students while the other was a 20-item performance test. The latter was subjected to Kuder-Richardson – 21 to test for the reliability and consistency of the responses from the students while cronbach alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the interest scale. A KR-21 score of ≥0.75 was obtained for the performance test, while a 0.78 was obtained for the interest questionnaire. Findings of the study revealed that personalization principle enhanced students’ interest and performance when compared to text-based design. Further analysis revealed that the difference in the mean performance scores of students taught using personalization design principles and those taught using texted based design was statistically significant. Based on the findings, it was recommended amongst others that workshops and conferences to encourage the use of instructional slides when appropriate and adopting Mayer’s principles of multimedia design should be inculcated at the secondary school level.

Personalization design principles, Text-based design, Computer studies, Academic performance, Interest.

"PERSONALIZATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no.d243-d251, March-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303327.pdf

"PERSONALIZATION DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 3, page no. ppd243-d251, March-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2303327.pdf