EFFECT OF ACTIVITY–BASED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA STATE
EFFECT OF ACTIVITY–BASED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN INTEGRATED SCIENCE IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KADUNA STATE
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2012-10
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DAWAKI, Jummai Habu
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Abstract
This study was designed to examine the effect of Activity-Based Instructional Strategy and
Traditional Method on the academic performance of students in Integrated Science in Junior
Secondary Schools Kaduna North Local Government Area. Three research question and
three hypotheses were formulated to serve as a guide for the study. The research design used
was Quasi-experimental where Pre-test and Post-test was used to achieve the objective of
the study. sample comprised 238 junior Secondary School students (J.S.S.One), from
Government Girls Junior Secondary School Independence Way and Asma’u Makarfi
Government Secondary School Unguwan Shanu being the Experimental and Control female
groups respectively. And Government Junior Secondary Doka Boys and Government
Junior Secondary School Badarawa being the Experimental and Control male groups. The
instrument used to asses the students performance was an adapted test (consisting of 30
objective test) of a multiple choice in Integrated science produced by Inyang and Nwaiwu
(2001).The mean was used to answer the research question and the t-test statistic was used
to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that(i) the Activity-Based strategy is more
effective than the Traditional Method. (ii) The Traditional Method is also effective in a
way since there was an improvement observed in the mean performance of students taught
using it. (iii) The Traditional Method could be used with other methods such as Activity-
Based for effective teaching and learning. The researcher concluded that if Integrated
Science teachers could incorporate Activity-Based teaching strategy into their teaching
methods there might be an improvement in academic performance of junior secondary
schools students in Integrated Science.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY, ZARIA-NIGERIA IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE
REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER’S DEGREE IN
EDUCATION (M.ED) IN CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION AND CURRICULUM,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
NIGERIA
OCTOBER, 2012
Keywords
ACTIVITY, INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE, INTEGRATED SCIENCE, SECONDARY SCHOOLS