Effects of Blended Instructional Strategy on the Learning Outcome of Adults Undertaking Professional Accounting Programmes in Southwest Nigeria

: This study investigated the effect of blended instructional strategy on the learning outcome of adults undertaking professional accounting programme in Southwest, Nigeria. The study examined the homogeneity of the experimental and control groups before treatment; and the learning outcome of the experimental and control groups after treatment. The study adopted a quasi-experimental pre-test and post-test two group design (one experimental group and one control group). The population targeted for this study consisted of all adults undertaking professional accounting programme in 9 centres in Southwest, Nigeria. The sample consisted of 41 adults undertaking accounting professional programme (intact class size), drawn from two study centres in Southwest, Nigeria, through a multistage sampling procedure. Performance Test in Basic Accounting (PTBA) and Attitudinal Learning Scale (ALS) were used to collect data. The data collected were subjected to t-test and Analysis of Covariance at α = 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the use of Blended Learning and Conventional strategy enhanced the performance of adults undertaking accounting professional programme while Blended Learning is the more effective. From the findings derived from this study, it was recommended among others that the use of a Blended Learning strategy should be encouraged in accounting professional programme learning centres so as to enhance better performance of adults undertaking professional accounting programme.