EFFECT OF CONSTRUCTIVIST PEDAGOGY ON PERFORMANCE IN BIOLOGY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KOGI STATE

Abstract

Constructivism is a teaching-learning paradigm that empathised how the learner construct his own knowledge based on experience which is unique to the individual. In this paper, attempt has been made to investigate the effect of constructivist pedagogy on student’s performance of senior secondary (SS II) students in transport system biology. Two schools were randomly selected out of the fifteen in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, infact classes were used. In each class used forty six students of equal number of male and female were used for the experimental and control group respectively design was used. The students in the experimental group ere taught tissues and transport system in living organisms through the use of constructivist pedagogy (CP) while students in the control group were taught the same concept using the conventional methods (CM). The instrument used for data collections was the Biology Achievement Test (BAT. Data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test unrelated sample. The result of the study revealed that students taught through the CP performed better than those taught through the CM. It was also establish that the male students performed better than the female students. Based on the findings, it is recommended that biology teachers should be trained on the use of CP as an innovative approach aimed at improving performance in biology. Workshops and seminars should be organized from time to time to enable biology teachers embrace the strategy in teaching