EFFECTS OF DEMONSTRATION AND PROJECT METHODS OF TEACHING ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL CHEMISTRY STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN MINNA MUNICIPAL, NIGER STATE.

Abstract

The main determination of the study was to find out the Effects of Demonstration and Project Method of Teaching on Senior Secondary School Chemistry Students’ Achievement in Minna Municipal. The problem that necessitated the study is students’ low achievement in Chemistry as reported by researches. The study adopted quasiexperimental design – a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The population of the study comprised of all SSII students in Minna Municipal, Niger state. While the sample size was 107 students. The instruments used for data collection was; Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) developed by the researcher. CAT was subjected to face and content validation by two experts from Department of Science Education, Federal University of Technology Minna. The reliability indices was found to be 0.72 Mean and standard deviation were used to provide answers for the research questions while t-test analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding showed that there was significant difference in the achievement of students taught using demonstration and project method thus. The findings of the study as presented in table 4.5 showed that there was significant differences in the achievement between male and female students taught using demonstration method. The result of the study, among others showed that demonstration teaching method increases students’ achievement in Saponification concepts in Chemistry. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher, among others suggested that Chemistry teachers should endeavor to develop and adopt the use of demonstration method as it would enhance overall achievement in Chemistry as well as help reduce gender gap in the subject.