EFFECTS OF COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BIOLOGY STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT COGNITIVE STYLES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION NORTH-EAST ZONE, NIGERIA.
EFFECTS OF COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTIVISM ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BIOLOGY STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT COGNITIVE STYLES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION NORTH-EAST ZONE, NIGERIA.
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2014-08
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MUHAMMAD, ADAMA
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Abstract
This study investigates the impact of collaborative constructivism on academic achievement of
biology students of different cognitive styles in colleges of education comparatively. The
population of study consisted of five thousand two hundred and three (5,203) students drawn
from ten Colleges of Education in the North-East Geo-political Zone of Nigeria. subjects were
randomly assigned to experimental and control groups using table of random numbers.
Cognitive styles inventory by Paragon (2011) was used to classify subjects to field dependent
and field independent cognitive styles. The experimental group was treated with six weeks of
teaching using collaborative constructivism approach. The control group were exposed to six
weeks of teaching the same topic using lecture method. A pretest was conducted for the two
groups. After treatment, a posttest was administered to both groups using Biology Achievement
Test (BAT) Research questions included; what is the effect of collaborative constructivism on the
academic performances of field dependent and field independent biology students taught
desertification using constructivism and lecture methods. Research hypotheses include; there is
no significant difference in the academic achievement of field dependent and field independent
biology students taught using different methods. A One- way Analysis of Variance at P. value of
0.05 revealed that the field independent members of the experimental group performed
excellently. The field dependent members also performed better than the control group.
Recommendations include (i) organization of workshop and conferences where teachers could
be exposed to collaborative constructivism approach for science teaching (ii) Also emphasis on
the use of collaborative constructivism by teachers to take care of individual differences is
advocated, among others.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN
SCIENCE EDUCATION.
Keywords
COLLABORATIVE, CONSTRUCTIVISM, ACADEMIC, BIOLOGY, COGNITIVE STYLES, COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, NORTH-EAST, NORTH-EAST