EFFECTS OF SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGY ON ATTITUDE, PERFORMANCE AND RETENTION IN ALGEBRA AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
EFFECTS OF SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGY ON ATTITUDE, PERFORMANCE AND RETENTION IN ALGEBRA AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
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2021-03
Authors
MOMOH, Jimoh Sadat
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The study investigated the Effect of Socialist Constructivist teaching strategy on
Attitude, Performance and Retention in Algebra among Junior Secondary School
Students in Kogi State, Nigeria. The study employed Quasi – experimental and
control pre-test and post-test group design. The population comprised all the Junior
Secondary School students in Kogi State during 2017/2018 academic session and
was 29,433 (14,973 male and 14,460 female). JSS three students were used as the
research sample. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select a
sample size of 169 students (77 male and 92 female) from 8,464 JSS three students
(4193 male and 4271 female). two educational zones were selected from eight in
Kogi State. Among the mixed-gender secondary schools in selected educational
zone, two were randomly chosen for the study. At the secondary school stage, an
arm of JSS three was randomly chosen and the total number of students involved
was 169 that served as the research sample In the chosen two secondary school in
each educational zone, one was meant for experimental group and the other for
control group by randomization. Four instruments namely Algebra Performance
Test A, Algebra Performance Test B, Algebra Retention Test and Algebraic
Attitude Questionnaire Scale were used to collect data for the research. The
instruments were used respectively for pre-test, post-test, retention ability and
attitudinal change. Algebra Performance Test A, Algebra Performance Test B and
Algebra Retention Test consisted of forty-multiple choice questions on algebra
content with five options (a, b, c, d, e.). The Algebra content covered included
simplification of algebraic expressions, expansion of algebraic expressions, factors
and factorization of algebraic expressions, simple equations and world problems on
simple equations. Algebraic Attitude Questionnaire Scale consisted of twenty
items with four options (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree)
in order to elicit students‟ attitude towards Algebra. 5Es (Engage, Explore, Explain,
Elaborate, Evaluate was injected into the study in order to boost socialist
constructivist teaching strategy. Test-Retest using Pearson Product moment
correlation was used to estimate the reliability coefficients of the instruments that
measured performance and retention while Split-halves method using Spearman
rank order Correlation Coefficient was used for Attitudinal Scale. The respective
reliability coefficients were 0.80 and 0.97 Six research questions and six null
hypotheses were analysed in the study. t-test for independent samples and Mann
Whitney at significance level of 0.05 were used to carry out the data analyses. The
results indicated significant differences in the mean performance, retention and
attitudinal change in favour of experimental group. But under the experimental
group there were no significance means difference between male and female in
terms of attitudinal change, performance and retention. It is recommended that
students should constantly practise and revise their algebra lessons, teachers should
employ different forms of socialist constructivist teaching strategy in the classroom
and schools should encourage seminars, workshops and in-service training for
teachers to update their mathematical knowledge. Schools should give prize to
outshining mathematics student and should encourage the dull ones not to give up.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE
STUDIES AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITYIN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF DOCTOR DEGREE IN
MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA, NIGERIA
Keywords
EFFECTS,, SOCIALIST CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGY,, ATTITUDE,, PERFORMANCE,, RETENTION,, ALGEBRA,, JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS,, KOGI STATE,, NIGERIA