EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTIVITY –BASED AND LECTURE METHODS OF TEACHING SCIENCE EDUCATION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA

AbdulRahaman Ishola Ibrahim PhD

Abstract

The study examined the effects of activity based and lecture method of instruction in enhancing academic performance among science education students in Jigawa State. A quasi – experimental pre-test, post-test design was used and fifty (50) students who were randomly selected were divided into Experimental and Control group constitute the samples for the study. The students in the two groups were taught Improvisation in science teaching as part of the courses in curriculum studies. For the experimental group, the method of instruction was activity based while the teaching lasted for three weeks. The mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the results while a t-test statistics was employed to determine the level of significance between the mean scores of the two groups at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group which used pure lecture method. Besidest students in experimental group participated actively in the lesson, feel free to ask questions and participated actively in the lesson to show evidence of good learning. Among other recommendations is that science educators should always try to use activity based method and make use of instructional materials to bring about effective learning.