Improving Students’ Performance in Carpentry and Joinery Through Artificial Intelligence Multimodal Learning Materials Utilization at Crafts Development Centres in South-South Nigeria.

This study was necessitated due to poor performance of students in carpentry and joinery at crafts development centers in South-South Nigeria. The study was significant; owning to the fact that, in recent times, carpentry and joinery craft has become one of the lucrative careers. The study adopted Descriptive Survey and Quasi-Experimental designs. Six research questions and six null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was 346, which comprised 316 Level II students and 30 teachers in carpentry and joinery craft at Crafts Development Centres in South-South States of Nigeria. The instruments for data collection were performance test and questionnaire; which were validated by three experts. The reliability coefficient of performance test and the questionnaire were 0.78 and 0.76 respectively. Mean, Standard Deviation, z-test and ANCOVA were used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that, the use of Multimodal Learning Materials powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) improved students' performance, retention, interest, engagement, teacher-students' interaction and student-student interaction. The study among others recommended that teachers should be trained on the use of AI Multimodal Learning Materials in order to enhance students' performance in carpentry and joinery craft. Keywords: AI Multimodal Learning Materials, carpentry, joinery, crafts development centers, performance.