DETERMINING DIFFICULT CONCEPTS IN MAP WORK AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE

📄 Project Abstract

The study was aimed at determining the difficult concepts in Map work in geography among senior secondary school students. The sample was made up of two hundred and fifty (250) SSIII Geography students from ten (10) secondary schools in Nsukka Educational Zone. The study used the evaluation research design. The Map work concepts assessed were Scale, Direction and Bearing, Gradient, Measurement of Distance, Map Enlargement and Reduction, Section Drawing, Description of Drainage Features, Pattern of Communication, Settlement Pattern, Land use, Physical Features, Relationships on Contour Maps and Intervisibility. Map Work Achievement Test (MWAT) was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was validated by two Senior Geography teachers and two Measurement and Evaluation experts in University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability co-efficient of 0.77 for the instrument was established using the split half method (Spearman-Brown Prophecy Formula). Data collected were analy...