Ude, Veronica C. and Mbajiorgu, M Ngozika (2015) World View and Academic Self-Concept (ASC) as Predictors of Biology Achievement among Nigerian Senior Secondary School Students. STAN Journal,, 50 (1). pp. 1-12.
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Abstract
In this study, a global predictor variable, worldview, and a specific predictor variable, Academic Self-Concept (ASC), were investigated for their predictive powers on achievement in biology. Participants were final year secondary school students (N=530, age = 16- to 18- year-olds) from Nigeria. Data for the study came from two instruments, the Academic Self-Concept Scale (ASCS) and the Belief Systems Analysis Scale (BSAS) as well as from the final Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. Results from the analysis of data using spearman rho correlation and regression analysis suggest that worldview is a better predictor than ASC, violating the specificity matching principle. It was also found that ASC was negatively correlated to worldview and mediated between worldview and achievement. Chance evidence from the study also reveals this cohort of students to believe in the intervention of a deity (God) in nature. Science education cannot, therefore, neglect the worldview of students if a major breakthrough is to be recorded in its research and provisions for the minority groups. Keywords: worldview, academic self-concept, biology achievement, specificity matching
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AS Academies and learned societies (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Education |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2019 20:26 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2019 20:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2317 |
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