PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF THE IMPACT OF SIMULATIONS AND ANALOGY ON STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN FEDERAL UNIVERSIY OF TECHNOLOGY MINNA, NIGER STATE.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the Pre-Service Teachers’ Perception of the Impact of Simulations and Analogy on Students Achievement in Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State. In order to obtain the pertinent information of the study four research questions and two null hypotheses was set to guide the study. A descriptive research design was adopted using questionnaire as the instrument consisting of 30 items for data collection. Total number of 90 pre-service students was used for collection of data from the total population of 473 Pre-Service Teachers’. Mean, Standard Deviation and ANOVA were used to analyze the data collected. The findings of the study revealed Science Education Students perceive Simulation to be a good method of teaching with the grand mean of 3.02. The findings of the study also disclosed that there is no difference male and female perception with mean gain score of 46.32 and 49.21 respectively. The p-value of 0.017 shows that there is significant difference on the Perception of Simulation. The findings of the study also revealed that Science Education Students perceive Analogy to be a good method of teaching with the grand mean of 2.79. The findings of the study show that there is no significance difference in the perception of male and female students’ using Analogy with p-value of 0.397.The research thereby recommended that the curriculum planners should include the use of Simulation and Analogy as methods of teaching Science subjects, the school management should also implement the use of Simulation And Analogy in teaching science concepts. Teachers should to be enlightened on the importance of Simulations and Analogy in teaching science subjects and workshop/training should be organized to guide teachers on the use of use of Simulations and Analogy for teaching.