International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue III, March 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Academic Achievement of Non-Specialist and Specialist Biology Students in Basic Science Education
Luka Yelwa Barde, Abubakar Alhaji Ahmed, Isa Kabaju , Falmata Zumami Waru, Hadiza Zumami Waru,
Abba Mohammed Danjuma
Umar Suleiman College of Education Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria
Abstract: – The purpose of the study was to explore the correlation between non-specialist and specialist Biology students. Thus, the study investigated the relationship between non-specialist and specialist Biology students in Umar Suleiman College of Education Gashua – Yobe State. There were 308 non-specialist students against 15 Biology specialist students which made a sample of 323 randomly selected NCE I students was taken from a population of (1,617) students. The Data analysis was done using an ex-post-facto design as well as the ANOVA and Z-Statistic. The result shown that, NCE course combination can affect students’ academic achievement in Biology; although, there is no significance relationship among the mean performances of students in various NCE programmes.But on the contrary, there is a significant difference in the mean performance of specialist and non-specialist Biology students at 0.05 level of significance. The findings were briefly discussed with a view of making a necessary provision to cater for all sorts of students in Basic science education.
Keywords: Academic Achievement/Specialist Students/Non-specialist Students/Basic science education