EFFECTS OF CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGY ON ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION SKILLS IN MODEL PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF KADUNA STATE
EFFECTS OF CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGY ON ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION SKILLS IN MODEL PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF KADUNA STATE
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2009
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ADO, ISHAKU KAURU
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of constructivist
teaching strategy on Addition and Subtraction Skills in model primary
schools of Kaduna state (2006/2007). To achieve this, a pretest and posttest
control group design was adopted. Two schools were randomly selected i.e.
Shehu Idris Central and Kauru Central, which are experimental and control
group respectively. A stratified random sampling technique was used and a
total of 80 pupils were selected as sample size of the study. Five hypotheses
and research questions were formulated to investigate the effects between
the constructivist teaching strategy and the traditional method on addition
and subtraction skills. The Statistical Package for Social Science was used
for the analyses of data. A test- retest reliability and Pearson Correlation
Coefficient was used to estimate the reliability and found to be 0.81 while
the content validity coefficient was found to be 0.52. Independent Samples
Test was used to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that there was
statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the
experimental and control groups in addition, subtraction skills, in the
combination of addition and subtraction skills, and between male
experimental and female experimental groups at α = 0.05 level of
significance which further showed that the Tri-constructs teaching strategy
favoured the experimental group. Based on the results of the study some
pertinent recommendations were made favourably to pupils, teachers,
administrators and community members.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE
SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL
FULFILMENT FOR THE AWARD OF M.ED
(MATHEMATICS)
DEPARMENT OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
2009
Keywords
EFFECTS,, CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING,, STRATEGY,, ADDITION,, SUBTRACTION SKILLS,, MODEL,, PRIMARY SCHOOLS,, KADUNA STATE.