EFFECT OF REALIA ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GEOGRAPHY IN KANKIA ZONE; KATSINA STATE-NIGERIA
EFFECT OF REALIA ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GEOGRAPHY IN KANKIA ZONE; KATSINA STATE-NIGERIA
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2015-11
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HASHIMU, Usman
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This study Investigated the Effect of Realia on Academic Performance of Senior
Secondary School Students in Geography in Kankia Educational Zone Katsina StateNigeria.
The study is prompted by persistent mass failure of geography students in the final
year SSCE examination. The study objectives were; to determine the effect of realia on the
academic performance of senior secondary school students in Geography; examine the
effect of realia on performance of gender as well as rural and urban students in Geography.
This is guided by three research questions among which include, what is the effect of realia
on academic performance of senior secondary school students in geography? To further
achieve this, three null hypotheses were formulated and include, there is no significant
difference between the academic performance of senior secondary school students exposed
to realia (experimental group) and those who were not exposed to it (control group).The
study is delimited to only SS I Geography Students of public Secondary Schools in Kankia
Education Zone of Katsina state. The study adapted pre-test post-test quasi-experimental
and control group design. A total number of 200 students, from a population of 2089 SS1
Geography students were selected using purposive sampling technique, formed the sample
of the study. Geography Achievement Test developed by the researcher and validated by
expert guided in data collection. Research questions were answered using Mean and
Standard Deviation while t-test statistic at 0.05 confidence level were used test the
hypotheses , using SPSS package. From the result of findings, it was confirmed that, there is
significant difference in the academic achievement scores of Geography Students exposed
to realia and those taught the same concept using lecture method only. Students taught
geography using realia performed perform better than their counterpart taught the same concept using lecture method only. The result obtained further revealed that there is no
significant difference in the performance of geography students in the rural and urban area
taught using realia only. There is also no significant difference between the performance of
male and female students taught geography using realia as instructional material, therefore
the use of realia is gender friendly. Based on the findings obtained from this study, it was
recommended that the use of realia in teaching Geography in schools should be encouraged
by Federal Ministry of Education, and State Ministries of Education. It was also
recommended that Stake holders in education industries such as Federal and state ministries
of education across the nation should train and retrain teachers on utilization of realia in
teaching through organizing periodic seminars, conferences and workshops to teachers. It
was also recommended that teachers should be sourcing realia from various sources
prescribed by National Policy on Education.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS OF EDUCATION IN
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
EFFECT,, REALIA,, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,, SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, GEOGRAPHY,, KANKIA ZONE,, KATSINA STATE-NIGERIA,