Comparison Of Academic Performance Of Senior Secondary School Students In Physics In External Examinations From 2014-2018. (A Case Study Of Makurdi Local Government Area, Benue State
- May 12, 2021
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue III, March 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186
Dr. Atsuwe, B.A1 and Precious U Mba2
1Department of Physics Education, Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria
2Makurdi/College of Agricultural and Science education, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
This study aimed to compare senior secondary school student’s academic performance in Physics in external examinations from 2014-2018 using specific objectives and research questions for all the secondary schools selected from Makurdi local governments. ANOVA, which is the analysis of variance, was used in analyzing the scores of the students’ tests. Similarly, three other hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance using the Chi-square. The first hypothesis analysis shows no significant difference in male students’ academic performance in their Physics subject. The result also showed no significant differences in the male students’ academic performance in Physics after they were separated from the female students. The third hypothesis also indicated no significant difference in the male students’ performance in Physics in private and public secondary schools. However, there were fluctuations in students’ academic performance in Physics in Makurdi over the years of study. As a result, it is recommended that the government empower the ministry of education’s supervisory unit to provide timely and thorough teaching instruction supervision to ensure that education practice in the state follows authorized regulations.
Keywords: comparison, academic performance, physics students, secondary school
Introduction
The comparison of academic performance using students’ academic performance is challenging since student performance is the product of socio-economic, psychological and environmental factors. Education ought to be growing as a profitable industry with prime objective of maximizing profit by delivering high quality education that produces well educated, skilled mannered students according to needs and requirements of the dynamically growing market. There are two groups of students as generally perceived: those who improve and those who do not improve on their academic performances (Alaye, 2013).
Students performance is also affected by different factors such as learning abilities because new paradigm about learning assumes that all students can and should learn at higher levels but it should not be considered as constraint because there are other factors like race, gender, sex that can affect students’ performance Hansen (2011).
