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This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Larg... more This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Large Class among Secondary School Students in Gusau, Zamfara State. The target population consists of all secondary schools in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state with total enrolment of 22,541 students and 2000 students were randomly selected from six secondary schools to represent the target population. The questionnaire on management of large classrooms was designed by the researchers to collect data for the study and The reliability of 0.56 and 0.82 was obtained using split half method through Pearson Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC). Descriptive survey approach with a sample size of two thousand (2000) students drawn from the six senior secondary schools. Three research questions and one hypothesis were answered by the descriptive statistic and t-test statistic was used to answer the research hypotheses. The results of the analysis showed that there are no classrooms for student 1:40 per class in the area of the research meaning that the classes are large, found that it also shows that large classroom is not conducive for learning due to disruptive behavior, more noises from students during lesson which lead to less student's attention and teachers found it difficult to control the classes. The also found that, there is significant difference in the view of male and female students' views on class size on the ways mathematics is being taught at secondary school level.
This study aimed at surveying the secondary school students' views on teaching and learning o... more This study aimed at surveying the secondary school students' views on teaching and learning of mathematics for enhancing their entrepreneurship opportunity in Nigeria. The study were carried out in Zamfara state covering three Senetotiral zones of the state. The target population is all the secondary schools in state. A sample of one thousand (1000) students which is made up of six hundred (600) male and four hundred (400) female students were randomly selected schools from the three senatorial district. Four hundred (400) samples were from the central zone while three hundred (300) samples from each north west and north south zones respectively. The design for this study is survey where three (3) research questions and three (3) hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The instruments used for the data collection is structured questionnaire. The three research questions were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the questions and two hypotheses were tested usin...
This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Larg... more This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Large Class among Secondary School Students in Gusau, Zamfara State. The target population consists of all secondary schools in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state with total enrolment of 22,541 students and 2000 students were randomly selected from six secondary schools to represent the target population. The questionnaire on management of large classrooms was designed by the researchers to collect data for the study and The reliability of 0.56 and 0.82 was obtained using split half method through Pearson Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC). Descriptive survey approach with a sample size of two thousand (2000) students drawn from the six senior secondary schools. Three research questions and one hypothesis were answered by the descriptive statistic and t-test statistic was used to answer the research hypotheses. The results of the analysis showed that there are no classrooms for student 1:40 per class in the area of the research meaning that the classes are large, found that it also shows that large classroom is not conducive for learning due to disruptive behavior, more noises from students during lesson which lead to less student's attention and teachers found it difficult to control the classes. The also found that, there is significant difference in the view of male and female students' views on class size on the ways mathematics is being taught at secondary school level.
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This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teachi... more ABSTRACT
This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teaching and learning mathematics in secondary schools of Gusau metropolis
Random sampling was adopted in selecting 120 students alongside with 18 teachers.
Two (2) instruments were self-designed for the data collection namely Teachers Questionnaire on Students Academic Performance in Mathematics and Students Questionnaire for Mathematics Achievement Test. Which are used to gather information for this study. To analyze this, three research questions were raised which are then transformed into three null hypotheses for the conduct of this research. The questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while null hypotheses were analyzed using T-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as the case may be and the result of the study revealed that; Professional teachers has no significant effect on qualified science teachers towards the academic performance of students in mathematics; Gender has a significant effect on teacher qualification in the performance of students in mathematics; and Gender has a significant effect on students’ academic performance in mathematics by professional teachers
The study recommended that government and school authorities should provide adequate and appropriate teaching materials and mathematics equipment in all science secondary schools to motivate students in learning mathematics.
Keywords: Effect, Academic Qualification Mathematics, Teaching and Learning, Secondary Schools, Teacher.
Critical Issues In Education: Annexing Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria; A Festschrift in Honour of Professor A. A. Salawu, 2023
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This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on sec... more ABSTRACT This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on secondary students’ interest, achievement and retention towards national development. This is a descriptive survey design which the target population was all the Senior Secondary Schools in Hadejia Educational zone of Jigawa state. Sample size of 80 students which is made up of 40 males and 40 female students were randomly selected from two schools. Generated for the study were three research questions and three research. Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) was used to ascertain the student’s performance in mathematics towards national development. The findings from the study revealed that there was no significant difference on the academic achievement of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method; it also revealed there was significant difference in the retention of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method, also a significant difference exist in the gender performance of students taught mathematics using CAI. The study concludes that students taught with CAI package comprehend more effectively than the students taught with the conventional method of instruction; It was also concluded from the findings of the study that the male gender achieved better than their female counterpart from the lesson(s) taught to them using the CAI package. It is also recommended that all stakeholders in Mathematics Education should play a vital role in ensuring all students are carried along to secure a brighter future and have a good sense of national development. Government should emphasize on teachers’ in-service trainings and workshops for them to be familiar with the newer approaches of teaching apart from the conventional ones they have already knew. The teachers should try their best in avoiding gender stereotype amongst students when learning is taking place as it hinders them to understand what the teacher is imparting upon them and at the end, they might lack interest on the teacher him/herself and consequently on the subject.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Jun 30, 2021
This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Larg... more This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Large Class among Secondary School Students in Gusau, Zamfara State. The target population consists of all secondary schools in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state with total enrolment of 22,541 students and 2000 students were randomly selected from six secondary schools to represent the target population. The questionnaire on management of large classrooms was designed by the researchers to collect data for the study and The reliability of 0.56 and 0.82 was obtained using split half method through Pearson Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC). Descriptive survey approach with a sample size of two thousand (2000) students drawn from the six senior secondary schools. Three research questions and one hypothesis were answered by the descriptive statistic and t-test statistic was used to answer the research hypotheses. The results of the analysis showed that there are no classrooms for student 1:40 per class in the area of the research meaning that the classes are large, found that it also shows that large classroom is not conducive for learning due to disruptive behavior, more noises from students during lesson which lead to less student's attention and teachers found it difficult to control the classes. The also found that, there is significant difference in the view of male and female students' views on class size on the ways mathematics is being taught at secondary school level.
This study aimed at surveying the secondary school students' views on teaching and learning o... more This study aimed at surveying the secondary school students' views on teaching and learning of mathematics for enhancing their entrepreneurship opportunity in Nigeria. The study were carried out in Zamfara state covering three Senetotiral zones of the state. The target population is all the secondary schools in state. A sample of one thousand (1000) students which is made up of six hundred (600) male and four hundred (400) female students were randomly selected schools from the three senatorial district. Four hundred (400) samples were from the central zone while three hundred (300) samples from each north west and north south zones respectively. The design for this study is survey where three (3) research questions and three (3) hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The instruments used for the data collection is structured questionnaire. The three research questions were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the questions and two hypotheses were tested usin...
This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Larg... more This study aims at investigating the Perception of the Problems of Learning Mathematics in a Large Class among Secondary School Students in Gusau, Zamfara State. The target population consists of all secondary schools in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state with total enrolment of 22,541 students and 2000 students were randomly selected from six secondary schools to represent the target population. The questionnaire on management of large classrooms was designed by the researchers to collect data for the study and The reliability of 0.56 and 0.82 was obtained using split half method through Pearson Product Moment Coefficient (PPMC). Descriptive survey approach with a sample size of two thousand (2000) students drawn from the six senior secondary schools. Three research questions and one hypothesis were answered by the descriptive statistic and t-test statistic was used to answer the research hypotheses. The results of the analysis showed that there are no classrooms for student 1:40 per class in the area of the research meaning that the classes are large, found that it also shows that large classroom is not conducive for learning due to disruptive behavior, more noises from students during lesson which lead to less student's attention and teachers found it difficult to control the classes. The also found that, there is significant difference in the view of male and female students' views on class size on the ways mathematics is being taught at secondary school level.
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teachi... more ABSTRACT
This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teaching and learning mathematics in secondary schools of Gusau metropolis
Random sampling was adopted in selecting 120 students alongside with 18 teachers.
Two (2) instruments were self-designed for the data collection namely Teachers Questionnaire on Students Academic Performance in Mathematics and Students Questionnaire for Mathematics Achievement Test. Which are used to gather information for this study. To analyze this, three research questions were raised which are then transformed into three null hypotheses for the conduct of this research. The questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while null hypotheses were analyzed using T-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as the case may be and the result of the study revealed that; Professional teachers has no significant effect on qualified science teachers towards the academic performance of students in mathematics; Gender has a significant effect on teacher qualification in the performance of students in mathematics; and Gender has a significant effect on students’ academic performance in mathematics by professional teachers
The study recommended that government and school authorities should provide adequate and appropriate teaching materials and mathematics equipment in all science secondary schools to motivate students in learning mathematics.
Keywords: Effect, Academic Qualification Mathematics, Teaching and Learning, Secondary Schools, Teacher.
Critical Issues In Education: Annexing Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria; A Festschrift in Honour of Professor A. A. Salawu, 2023
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This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on sec... more ABSTRACT This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on secondary students’ interest, achievement and retention towards national development. This is a descriptive survey design which the target population was all the Senior Secondary Schools in Hadejia Educational zone of Jigawa state. Sample size of 80 students which is made up of 40 males and 40 female students were randomly selected from two schools. Generated for the study were three research questions and three research. Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) was used to ascertain the student’s performance in mathematics towards national development. The findings from the study revealed that there was no significant difference on the academic achievement of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method; it also revealed there was significant difference in the retention of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method, also a significant difference exist in the gender performance of students taught mathematics using CAI. The study concludes that students taught with CAI package comprehend more effectively than the students taught with the conventional method of instruction; It was also concluded from the findings of the study that the male gender achieved better than their female counterpart from the lesson(s) taught to them using the CAI package. It is also recommended that all stakeholders in Mathematics Education should play a vital role in ensuring all students are carried along to secure a brighter future and have a good sense of national development. Government should emphasize on teachers’ in-service trainings and workshops for them to be familiar with the newer approaches of teaching apart from the conventional ones they have already knew. The teachers should try their best in avoiding gender stereotype amongst students when learning is taking place as it hinders them to understand what the teacher is imparting upon them and at the end, they might lack interest on the teacher him/herself and consequently on the subject.
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This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teaching and learning mathematics in secondary schools of Gusau metropolis
Random sampling was adopted in selecting 120 students alongside with 18 teachers.
Two (2) instruments were self-designed for the data collection namely Teachers Questionnaire on Students Academic Performance in Mathematics and Students Questionnaire for Mathematics Achievement Test. Which are used to gather information for this study. To analyze this, three research questions were raised which are then transformed into three null hypotheses for the conduct of this research. The questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while null hypotheses were analyzed using T-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as the case may be and the result of the study revealed that; Professional teachers has no significant effect on qualified science teachers towards the academic performance of students in mathematics; Gender has a significant effect on teacher qualification in the performance of students in mathematics; and Gender has a significant effect on students’ academic performance in mathematics by professional teachers
The study recommended that government and school authorities should provide adequate and appropriate teaching materials and mathematics equipment in all science secondary schools to motivate students in learning mathematics.
Keywords: Effect, Academic Qualification Mathematics, Teaching and Learning, Secondary Schools, Teacher.
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This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on secondary students’ interest, achievement and retention towards national development. This is a descriptive survey design which the target population was all the Senior Secondary Schools in Hadejia Educational zone of Jigawa state. Sample size of 80 students which is made up of 40 males and 40 female students were randomly selected from two schools. Generated for the study were three research questions and three research. Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) was used to ascertain the student’s performance in mathematics towards national development. The findings from the study revealed that there was no significant difference on the academic achievement of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method; it also revealed there was significant difference in the retention of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method, also a significant difference exist in the gender performance of students taught mathematics using CAI. The study concludes that students taught with CAI package comprehend more effectively than the students taught with the conventional method of instruction; It was also concluded from the findings of the study that the male gender achieved better than their female counterpart from the lesson(s) taught to them using the CAI package. It is also recommended that all stakeholders in Mathematics Education should play a vital role in ensuring all students are carried along to secure a brighter future and have a good sense of national development. Government should emphasize on teachers’ in-service trainings and workshops for them to be familiar with the newer approaches of teaching apart from the conventional ones they have already knew. The teachers should try their best in avoiding gender stereotype amongst students when learning is taking place as it hinders them to understand what the teacher is imparting upon them and at the end, they might lack interest on the teacher him/herself and consequently on the subject.
Keywords; Interest, Achievement, Retention, Mathematics, Computer Aided Instruction (CAI), National Development.
This study investigated the teacher academic qualification and its effect on the teaching and learning mathematics in secondary schools of Gusau metropolis
Random sampling was adopted in selecting 120 students alongside with 18 teachers.
Two (2) instruments were self-designed for the data collection namely Teachers Questionnaire on Students Academic Performance in Mathematics and Students Questionnaire for Mathematics Achievement Test. Which are used to gather information for this study. To analyze this, three research questions were raised which are then transformed into three null hypotheses for the conduct of this research. The questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while null hypotheses were analyzed using T-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as the case may be and the result of the study revealed that; Professional teachers has no significant effect on qualified science teachers towards the academic performance of students in mathematics; Gender has a significant effect on teacher qualification in the performance of students in mathematics; and Gender has a significant effect on students’ academic performance in mathematics by professional teachers
The study recommended that government and school authorities should provide adequate and appropriate teaching materials and mathematics equipment in all science secondary schools to motivate students in learning mathematics.
Keywords: Effect, Academic Qualification Mathematics, Teaching and Learning, Secondary Schools, Teacher.
This chapter investigates the effect of computer aided instruction (CAI) strategy on secondary students’ interest, achievement and retention towards national development. This is a descriptive survey design which the target population was all the Senior Secondary Schools in Hadejia Educational zone of Jigawa state. Sample size of 80 students which is made up of 40 males and 40 female students were randomly selected from two schools. Generated for the study were three research questions and three research. Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT) was used to ascertain the student’s performance in mathematics towards national development. The findings from the study revealed that there was no significant difference on the academic achievement of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method; it also revealed there was significant difference in the retention of students taught mathematics using CAI and those taught with conventional method, also a significant difference exist in the gender performance of students taught mathematics using CAI. The study concludes that students taught with CAI package comprehend more effectively than the students taught with the conventional method of instruction; It was also concluded from the findings of the study that the male gender achieved better than their female counterpart from the lesson(s) taught to them using the CAI package. It is also recommended that all stakeholders in Mathematics Education should play a vital role in ensuring all students are carried along to secure a brighter future and have a good sense of national development. Government should emphasize on teachers’ in-service trainings and workshops for them to be familiar with the newer approaches of teaching apart from the conventional ones they have already knew. The teachers should try their best in avoiding gender stereotype amongst students when learning is taking place as it hinders them to understand what the teacher is imparting upon them and at the end, they might lack interest on the teacher him/herself and consequently on the subject.
Keywords; Interest, Achievement, Retention, Mathematics, Computer Aided Instruction (CAI), National Development.