An Investigation Of The School Factors Contributing To Poor Teaching And Learning Of Chemistry In Secondary School

An Investigation Of The School Factors Contributing To Poor Teaching And Learning Of Chemistry In Secondary School

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

To the nonprofessional, the physical world around us is a collection of” mystifications.” nevertheless, these mysteries are being answered via wisdom tutoring. Science is defined rigorously in this sense as an organized body of knowledge attained from observation and trial. Ugochiwu( 2009) asserts that wisdom is primarily employed to explain, prognosticate, and govern the physical terrain. therefore, wisdom as a discipline( particularly the fundamentals) is critical for man’s development if he’s to comprehend his terrain and harness the principles buried in it. This leads Ugochiwu( 2009) to believe that wisdom education is critical across the globe.

still, in the debate over wisdom education, chemistry, which is the branch of natural wisdom that deals with the composition and structure of substances and the changes that do as a result of changes in the structure of their motes, has been linked as a critical wisdom subject, with its significance in both the scientific and technological development of any nation extensively reported. According to Dosmond( 2005), it was because of the education placed on chemistry in the development of the person and the country that it was elevated to a major subject in the Nigerian educational system alongside natural lores and other wisdom- related courses. therefore,” it is worth noting that the deplorable status of chemistry education in secondary seminaries has been a source of concern for everybody interested in our nation’s scientific and technological growth”( Inyang 2006).

also, chemistry tutoring should be outgrowth- driven and pupil- centered. This can be fulfilled only if scholars develop an interest in tutoring and preceptors effectively spread knowledge to scholars via the use of suitable tutoring ways and coffers, apprehensive that the brain isn’t a unresistant consumer of information( Robertson 2002). still, chemistry is being assimilated in Nigeria. The promptness of chemistry immersion is affected by certain academy variables and conditions, and the primary ideal of this exploration is to give remedies.

also, academy variables have been shown to impact literacy issues to a degree. This is because educational coffers and installations are accessible to affect tutoring and literacy in a particular academy. Rhene( 2014) identifies academy variables as educational architectures, installations, labor force, learning space, learners involved, class size, academy size, schoolteacher professionalism in their area, academy operation system, schoolteacher particular station, and laboratory crunches. Chinek( 2015) asserted that children are motivated to study in a favorable literacy terrain to guarantee that secondary academy tutoring and literacy are as effective as possible. As similar, the nature of the forenamed academy variables has a considerable impact on scholars’ literacy and overall success.

As a result of the below, this exploration work is being conducted to dissect academy variables and scholars’ academic performance in chemistry in Kebbi State’s Arewa Dandi original government region.

Statement Of The Problem

Chemistry tutoring is intended to be outgrowth- driven and pupil- centered. This was assumed to be fulfilled only if scholars developed a want to learn and preceptors spread themselves advantageously, using proper tutoring ways and coffers in tutoring the scholars, conscious of the fact that the brain isn’t a unresistant consumer of knowledge( Robertson 2002). still, knowledge of chemistry has been harmed, specially in Nigeria, by the bad station of both preceptors and scholars of chemistry, which has been aggravated by environmental variables similar as class size and academy position. On the base of the below, the present exploration seeks to identify the academy- related variables that contribute to shy chemistry tutoring and literacy in secondary seminaries.

Ideal Of The Study

The overall end of this study is to critically probe the academy factors contributing to poor tutoring and literacy of chemistry in secondary academy. Hence, the study will be conducted to the following specific objects;

1. Determine whether a significant positive relationship live between vacuity of educational installations, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

2. Determine whether a significant positive relationship live between schoolteacher’s position of professionalism, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

3. Determine whether a significant positive relationship live between class size, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

Exploration Hypotheses

The following statements will be validated in the course of this study;

H01 There’s no significant positive relationship between vacuity of educational installations, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

H02 There’s no significant positive relationship between schoolteacher’s position of professionalism, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

H03 There’s no significant positive relationship live between class size, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

Significance Of The Study

The study expounds the unproductive relationship among the scholars and the preceptors ’ variable under disquisition and achievement of scholars in chemistry. The outgrowth of the study help all stakeholders in the tutoring of chemistry particularly at the elderly secondary academy position, to fashion out applicable strategies that would enhance tutoring and literacy of the subjects.

Hence, the consideration of academy variable and pupil academic achievement are important criteria in development and perpetration of both classes in educational performance.

Compass Of The Study

This study is structured to generally probe the academy factors contributing to poor tutoring and literacy of chemistry in secondary academy. still, the study will further determine whether a significant positive relationship live between vacuity of educational installations, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries, determine whether a significant positive relationship live between schoolteacher’s position of professionalism, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries, and determine whether a significant positive relationship live between class size, and effective tutoring/ literacy of chemistry in secondary seminaries.

This study will be demarcated to some named secondary seminaries in Arewa Dandi original government Area of Kebbi State.

. Limitations Of The Study

In the course of carrying out this study, the experimenter endured some constraints, which included time constraints, fiscal constraints, language walls, and the station of the repliers.

In addition, there was the element of experimenter bias. Then, the experimenter held some impulses that may have been reflected in the way the data was collected, the type of people canvassed or tried , and how the data gathered was interpreted later. The eventuality for all this to impact the findings and conclusions couldn’t be played down.

More so, the findings of this study are limited to the sample population in the study area, hence they may not be suitable for use in comparison to other seminaries, original governments, countries, and other countries in the world.

Description Of Terms

Class Size

This is the number of scholars in a given classroom, especially moreover the number of scholars being tutored by individual preceptors in a classroom or the average number of scholars being tutored by preceptors in academy.

School Location

A academy position is appertained to the community or geographical terrain in which a academy is located. it may be a vill, pastoral area, small city, megacity or indeed a home.

Learning

literacy is a relative endless change on geste performing from experience. It’s a step- by- step process in which an individual gests endless, continuing charges in knowledge, behavours, or ways of recycling the would.

Academic Performance

Academic performance is defined as a raw information attained by preceptors from examination and test to use as means of penetrating the position of scholars response to schoolteacher’s variables. It’s a raw score gain from academy recorded by preceptors from colorful forms of achievement test he administer to a pupil.