INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL AND CONTENT KNOWLEDGE ON BASIC SCIENCE STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES IN BOSSO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE

Abstract

This research was designed to investigate the influence of teachers’ pedagogical and content knowledge on Basic Science Students Learning Outcomes in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. The researcher set four objectives to be achieved and four research questions were formulated to achieve the set objectives. Previous literatures that are related to this study were reviewed in order to establish link and focus for the study. The study adopted descriptive survey method with a total population of 16,402 Basic Science students in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger but only 5,578 students of JSSIII Basic Science Students were the population used for the study. Through proportionate random sampling, 50 students each were selected from 5 sampled secondary schools within Bosso LGA, there a total of 250 sampled students were used for the study. The research instrument was a self-designed questionnaire with reliability co-efficient of 0.86. The study adopted mean and standard deviation using SPSS (statistical package of Social Science) to analyzed data based on the research objectives. From the findings, it was concluded that there is influence of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge on Basic Science students learning outcome, there is influence of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge on Basic Science students learning outcome based on gender, there is influence of teachers’ content knowledge on Basic Science students learning outcome and there is influence of teachers’ content knowledge on Basic Science students learning outcome based on gender. From the findings, the research therefore recommended that teachers of Basic Science should be exposed to various teaching strategies to boost students’ performance, teachers of Basic Science should have good content knowledge of the subject and be ready be to learn different strategies in teaching and learning effectively and efficiently, Basic Science teachers should adopt the best teaching style which can influence student’s positive attitude towards learning of Basic Science and qualified and dedicated basic science teachers who are graduate of integrated science should be employed to teach the subject in secondary school.