Effect of Metacognitive Strategy of Self- Monitoring on Students' Achievement in Integrated Science

📄 Project Abstract

Students' poor performance or low academic achievement, especially in the sciences, has been a source of concern for educationists and the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) in particular. This study is one of the attempts to seek ways of improving students' learning so as to reflect in their academic achievement, especially in the sciences, through the use of metacognitive strategy of self-monitoring. The study involved manipulation of three independent variables of treatment, gender and school type (mixed sex and same sex) to see the effect on the dependent variable - students' learning as reflected in their achievement in integrated science. Five research questions were asked and answered while five hypotheses were tested using analysis of covariance. A quasi-experimental design was employed using six intact non-equivalent class groups. The population for the study was 2500 junior secondary class two (JSII) students within Nsukka education zone while the sample was 233 J...