Analysis On Teachers Perception Of Difficult Topics In Biology Curriculum

Analysis On Teachers Perception Of Difficult Topics In Biology Curriculum

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

wisdom provides a collection of information that may be used to numerous types of mortal, material, and environmental problems. It may also be divided into two broad complimentary modes the accession of information about the natural world via disquisition and discovery trials, and the operation of similar knowledge for mortal and material progress. Science is studied and rehearsed around the world, including Nigeria. Nigeria is a developing country with a growing demand for wisdom- grounded professed labor. At the secondary academy position, this might begin with the literacy and operation of wisdom motifs similar as biology, chemistry, integrated wisdom, and drugs. Only biology was covered among the wisdom motifs tutored in Nigerian secondary seminaries, which included biology, chemistry, integrated wisdom, and drugs. This is due to the study’s attention on biology education.

In Nigeria, biology is one of the elderly secondary academy courses tutored. Biology is a core scientific content that provides class for scholars pursuing careers in medical, nursing, drugstore, forestry, and fisheries, among other fields. A credit pass or over in biology is needed for any wisdom- related occupational specialty.

The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council( NERDC) had the authority to produce class for use at all situations of Nigeria’s educational system as part of attempts to attack educational challenges. The National Council of Education( NCE) authorized the( NERDC) to examine and realign the current elderly secondary academy classes to meet the excursions of the reform in the frame of National Economic commission and Development Strategy( requirements) and the Millennium Development Goals( MDGs)(M.D.G). likewise, the class is used to give the topmost textual coffers as well as the stylish tutoring and literacy results( Egwu, 2009). Biology’s significance as a discipline can not be exaggerated. It’s one of the most frequently demanded disciplines for entry to numerous professional courses, including drug, drugstore, nursing, medical laboratory wisdom, dentistry, veterinary drug, and activity. Microbiology, Biochemistry, Botany, Agricultural Science, and Biology Education all need biology( FGN 2004). According to the National Policy on Education, scholars must give at least one scientific content in elderly high academy. Biology is the most current scientific course handed to all SSS scholars. The present biology class’s contents and settings emphasized field studies, guided disquisition, laboratory instruction and chops, and abstract thinking. The objects can not be met unless acceptable and suitable educational coffers are made available and employed maximally( Babalola, 1998).

Abimbola( 1998) discovered that the biology content areas judged by preceptors to be significant correspond to what might be dubbed” Applied Biology” in his study on” preceptors’ views of important and delicate biology material in secondary seminaries.” The check also discovered that biology class areas viewed as delicate by preceptors to educate fall under the order of” Pure Biology.” Ecology, Chromosomes, Cellular, Respiration, Growth, and Heredity are exemplifications of biology motifs viewed as delicate to educate. According to Brennen( 2002), Olorundare & Oni( 2006), and Ariyo( 2014), preceptors frequently presume that whatever preceptors suppose to be extremely significant subject will be tutored duly. What’s viewed as delicate will nearly clearly not be tutored. preceptors have little or no option but to educate all motifs in a centralized educational system where the class is more or less handed down to them.

Nigeria has a centralized system in place. The Federal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council( NERDC), developed the biology class for all elderly secondary seminaries in Nigeria. As a result, all biology preceptors are anticipated to cover all motifs for SSS 1, SSS 2, and SSS 3 classes.

Statement of the Problem

scholars’ poor performance in external examinations similar as Secondary School Certificate Examinations( SSCE) and General Certificate Examinations( GCE) in secondary academy has come a source of concern for stakeholders in the education sector, particularly in light of the nation’s thing of getting one of the world’s top 20 husbandry by 2020. According to recent numbers issued by the two examination authorities, the West African Examination Council( WAEC) and the National Examination Council( NECO), the quality of tutoring and literacy in both public and private seminaries has continued to deteriorate at an intimidating rate( Osuagwu, 2013).

Once a schoolteacher has difficulty understanding certain biology motifs, he’ll not be suitable to educate similar motifs to the scholars’ good understanding, so such a schoolteacher will probably avoid similar motifs, and scholars will probably not understand the area of the biology class not tutored by the preceptors, and scholars may indeed not prepare well for external examinations in similar motifs. Because the syllabus and questions are grounded on the elderly secondary education class, this may affect in low performance in the elderly position instrument test. The study’s end was to examine preceptors’ comprehensions of tough themes in elderly secondary biology class.

Objects Of The Study

The main purpose of this study is to dissect preceptors ’ perception of delicate motifs in elderly secondary biology class. Specifically, the study was directed

To identify the areas in biology class which elderly secondary biology preceptors find delicate to educate.

ii. To ascertain whether preceptors academic qualification influences the difficulty in elderly secondary academy biology class.

iii. To establish whether tutoring experience of preceptors contributes to difficulty in elderly secondary academy biology class.

iv. To decrypt strategies to be employed in other to break the problem of delicate motifs set up in the elderly secondary academy biology class.

Exploration Questions

The following exploration questions were raised.

i. What content areas in the elderly secondary academy( SSS) biology class do preceptors find delicate to educate?

ii. Does preceptors academic qualification influence the difficulty areas in elderly secondary academy biology class?

iii. Does tutoring experience of preceptors contributes to difficulty in elderly secondary academy biology class?

iv. What strategies can be employed in working the problem of delicate areas set up in elderly secondary academy biology class?

Significance Of The Study

The experimenter was impelled to engage in this study work of delicate content areas in the secondary academy biology class, by the present intimidating increase in the failure of biology subject by scholars in elderly academy instrument biology examinations.

As earlier noted, the knowledge of biology prepares scholars for colorful fields like drug, drugstore; husbandry etc. For case, if the problem of cells, genetics, mitosis and meiosis are dealt with as respects to heredity and cell division, the people in the society will be suitable to choose the stylish life mate and be apprehensive of cell divisions in them during embryonic conformation in the area of reduplication. Disease among the population will be averted and also living condition will ameliorate. The suggestions will be of great help to the preceptors and scholars in those areas of difficulties. also, the findings of the study will be of immense benefits to biology experimenters and book pens in biology. It’ll also help institutions preparing preceptors of biology to be familiar with important data for planning biology course for implicit and present biology preceptors in our secondary seminaries. Governmental bodies entrusted with class planning will know where to amend while planning biology class when this work must have been completed by the experimenter. And this will ultimately lead to a sustainable development and enhancement in the tutoring of biology in seminaries.

Compass Of The Study

The compass of this study borders on preceptors ’ perception of delicate motifs in elderly secondary biologycurriculum.It also sought to determine whether preceptors academic qualification, tutoring experience and gender as factors responsible for perception of difficulty which leads to poor performance of scholars in wisdom courses( biology). The study is demarcated to named secondary academy in Oko original government in Anambra State.

Limitation Of The Study

Like in every mortal bid, the experimenters encountered slight constraints while carrying out the study. The significant constraint was the skimp literature on the subject owing that it’s a new converse therefore the experimenter incurred more fiscal charges and important time was needed in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature, or information and in the process of data collection, which is why the experimenter resorted to a limited choice of sample size covering only public secondary seminaries in Akure Local Government Area, Ondo State. therefore findings of this study can not be used for conception for other secondary seminaries in other countries within Nigeria. also, the experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work will stymie maximum devotion to the exploration. Howbeit, despite the constraint encountered during the exploration, all factors were played down in other to give the stylish and make the exploration successful.

Description Of Terms

Perception conscious understanding of commodity.

schoolteacher a person who teaches, especially one employed in a academy.

delicate hard, not readily, taking important trouble.

Class the set of courses, coursework and content, offered at a academy or university.

Biology study of all life or living matter.