EFFECTS OF 5E’S INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST IN ESSAY WRITING IN ONITSHA EDUCATION ZONE, NIGERIA.

The study investigated the effects of 5Es instructional model on students’ achievement and interest in essay writing. Six research questions and six null hypotheses guided the study. Quasi-experimental 2x2x2 factorial design was adopted for the study. Specifically, the non-equivalent control group type. This study was carried out in Onitsha North L.G.A. in Onitsha Education Zone of Anambra State. The population of the study comprised 3412 SS11 students in all the public secondary schools in Onitsha North L.G.A. of Anambra State. The sample of this study comprised of 140 SSII students drawn from four intact classes in two co- educational public secondary schools in the L.G.A. Purposive-sampling technique was used in drawing the sample for the study. 5Es instructional model was used for the experimental group. The treatments lasted for five weeks. The instruments for data collection in this study were Essay Interest Inventory (EII) and Essay Achievement Test (EAT) with reliability index of 0.81. Data collected from the research questions were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. The results revealed that students taught essay writing using 5Es instructional model had higher achievement f(4,139) =116.984, p