Effects of Social, Cognitive and Instructional Closure Teaching Methods on Students’ Achievements in Biology in Secondary Schools.

EBUOH, CASMIR N. (2015) Effects of Social, Cognitive and Instructional Closure Teaching Methods on Students’ Achievements in Biology in Secondary Schools. IJSAR Journal of Advancement in Education and Computing, 2 (2). pp. 41-49. ISSN 2408-7661

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Abstract

The Persistent poor performance of students’ achievement in biology had given concern to all facets of the society. Also the teaching methods used by teachers in teaching Biology in Nigerian secondary schools had been implicated.In view of the above problems, the study was designed to investigate the effects of social, cognitive and instructional closure teaching methods on SS2 students’ achievement in Biology. The researcher adopted a non-equivalent quasi-experimental design. A sample of 378 SS2 students was drawn from the three schools in Enugu education zone of Enugu State. In each of the three school used, one intact class was randomly drawn, one intact class was then randomly assigned to the experimental groups 1, II and the other intact class was assigned to conventional group 111. The three groups were taught using social, cognitive and instructional/conventional closure methods for experimental group I (social), experimental group II (cognitive)and conventional group 111 (taught with instructional) closure methods. A research question and a hypothesis guided the study. Relevant data for the study were collected using Biology Achievement Test (BAT). Research question was answered using mean and standard deviation while hypothesis was tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The results revealed that the use of cognitive closure teaching method in teaching Biology in the secondary schools was found to achieve higher than those taught using social and instructional closure teaching methods/conventional whereas the use of social closure teaching method was found to be better than the use of conventional/instructional closure teaching method. Some recommendations were made based on the findings of the study

Item Type: Article
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences > Faculty of Education
Depositing User: miss lydia lydia
Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2019 11:29
Last Modified: 24 Sep 2019 10:56
URI: http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/2036

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