Effect of Flipped Classroom Approach on student’s Retention in Financial Accounting Among Business Education Students in Rivers State Universities

Abstract

This study sought to determine the effect of teaching financial accounting with flipped classroom approach on Business Education students’ retention in Rivers State Universities. Three research questions were answered and three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Quasi-experimental non- randomized control group, pretest-posttest research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 2,738 Business Education students in two Universities that offer Business Education in Rivers State. The sample size was made of 171 year-one Business Education (Accountancy) students purposively selected from the two universities. Students in the experimental group were enrolled on a learning management system (MOODLE) which served as the virtual learning environment for the flipped classroom approach. The instrument for data collection was an achievement test titled Business Education Students Financial Accounting Achievement Test which contained 40 items covering three topics in Introduction to Financial Accounting. The instrument was validated by three experts and standardized through item analysis. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Kuder Richardson (KR 21) formula which yielded a coefficient of 0.77. Meanandstandarddeviationwereusedtoanswertheresearch questions while Analysis of Covariance was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of the study reveal that flipped classroom approach had a significantly higher effect on students’ retention in financial accounting than the conventional classroom approach. The results also show that gender did not have a significant effect on students’ retention when taught financial accounting with flipped classroom approach. It was recommended, among others that, accounting lecturers should consider using flipped classroom approach for teaching basic financial accounting courses.