Impact Of Inquiry And Demonstration Methods On Attitude, Retention And Performance Among Secondary School Physics Students Of Varied Abilities In Kano, Nigeria

📄 Project Abstract

This study investigated the impact of inquiry and demonstration methods on attitude, retention and performance among secondary school physic students of varied ability in Kano, Nigeria. Quasi - experimental design was adopted for the study. A purposive sampling technique was used to select six schools out of thirty nine secondary schools in Dawakin Kudu Education Zone. Five hundred SSII Physics students of varied abilities were used for the study. Physics Performance Test (PPT) and Wave Concepts Attitude Scale Questionnaire (WCASQ) were used to collect data. The reliability of PPT and WCASQ was 0.89 and 0.97 respectively using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) statistics and Guttman Split - Half Coefficient formula. Six null hypotheses were tested at p0.05 levels of significance using one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA), Kruskal Wallis test and Wilcoxon signedrank test statistics. And the following were the major findings: Students ...