COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONTENT COVERAGE ON CHEMISTRY PRACTICAL BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOL IN BOSSO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA MINNA, NIGER STATE.

Abstract

In this study an attempt was made to compare content coverage of chemistry practical between public and private senior secondary school. The study adopted a survey research design which specifically, compared content coverage of chemistry practical in SS 1 and SS 2. Two research questions guided this study. A total of 11394 SS 1 and SS 2 students drawn from thirty-nine secondary schools within Bosso local government area were used. The students were drawn through simple random sampling technique. Eight public schools and eight private schools were used for the study. Simple frequency count, percentage, descriptive chart were used to answer the two research questions. The result showed that private schools have a high content coverage compare to public schools in Bosso local government area. Thus, it was concluded that public schools students do not cover their content on practical which relate to their poor achievement in external examinations in chemistry. Therefore it was recommended that Chemistry teachers should give more priority to content coverage of chemistry practical as part of instruction in order to improve students’ understanding of practically related concepts.