The study investigated the effects of computer multimedia testing on Social Studies undergraduates’ academic achievement and retention in Environmental Education. The study was carried in federal universities in South-East, Nigeria. Post test only quasi experimental research design was adopted. The population for the study consisted of 327 200level Social Studies Education Students. Two intact classes were used consisting of 131 students. Environmental Education Achievement Test was used to collect data for the study. Data collected were analyzed mean and standard deviation while ANCOVA was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The study revealed that students exposed to Computer Multimedia Testing (CMT) had significant higher achievement and retention than those exposed to conventional computer-based test. Based on the findings, institutions should replace conventional computer-based tests with CMT to boost student achievement; Environmental Education courses should embed multimedia testing tools into their instructional design; Education policymakers should fund and mandate CMT infrastructure in Nigerian federal universities.
Eze et al. (Sun,) studied this question.