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EFFECT OF ROUNDHOUSE TEACHING STRATEGY ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND INTEREST OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY STUDENTS IN PLATEAU CENTRAL EDUCATIONAL ZONE, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

Titus Musa Lapaam, Abdulkarim Ali Deba, Shaibu S. Sara

Abstract


The study investigated the effect of the roundhouse teaching strategy on the academic performance and interest of SSII Students in Biology. A quasi-experimental design was used, in which pre-test and post-test control groups were involved. The instruments for data collection were the Ecology Achievement Test (EAT) and the Ecology Interest Inventory scale (EIIs). The internal consistency of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha and a reliability coefficient of 0.87 and 0.75 respectively. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The study showed that Biology students taught using a roundhouse teaching strategy had the highest pretest and post-test mean difference of 31.71 followed by the lecture method of teaching with the least post-test mean difference of 18.72. The findings of this study showed that the male students taught Biology using a roundhouse teaching strategy had a pre-test and post-test mean difference of 31.00. Likewise, the female counterpart who taught Biology with the same teaching method had the highest pre-test mean difference of 41.00%. Therefore, the female Biology students had the highest mean in roundhouse teaching strategy. Also, this study revealed that when the roundhouse teaching strategy is compared with the lecture method, a mean difference of 13.98 was obtained with a p-value of 0.039, indicating a significant difference in favour of the roundhouse teaching strategy. Furthermore, the findings indicated that there is a significant difference in the performance of students taught Biology using roundhouse teaching strategy and lecture methods, F, (df =2, 50) = 3.500, p < 0.05 since the computed p-value0.036 is less than
0.05 level of significance. The null hypothesis is rejected. It was recommended that the school authorities integrate and encourage teachers to use the Round House Teaching strategy in teaching and learning Biology in senior secondary schools.

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Performance;biology;interest;and roundhouse

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