EFFECT OF CONCEPT MAPPING ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST IN SELECTED CONCEPTS FROM ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

📄 Project Abstract

This study investigated the effects of Concept Mapping on Students' achievement and Interest in selected concept from Organic Chemistry. It also examined the achievement and interest on both male and female students. Four (4) research questions and four (4) hypotheses guided the study. The study was a non- equivalent pre-test post-test control group quasi - experimental design involving one treatment and on control groups. The sample for the study consisted of about 240 SS II Chemistry students drawn from four out of eight government area of Enugu Education Zone. The intact classes were randomly selected and assigned experimental and control groups. Two instruments, Organic Chemistry achievement Test (OCAT) and Organic Chemistry Interest Scale (OCIS) developed by the research were used for data collection. The items of these instruments were also subjected to face and content validation. The reliability of the instruments was established using Kudar-Richarson formula 20 and Cronbach's...