EFFECT OF TEAM TEACHING AND CONCEPT MAPPING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES ON PHYSICS STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN MKPAT ENIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the effect of team teaching and concept mapping instructional strategies on students’ academic performance in physics in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Three research questions and corresponding null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A quasi experimental research design was adopted for the study. The population of this study comprised all the 2,238 SS2 physics students in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The sample of this study consisted of 62 SS2 physics students drawn from two public secondary schools in the study area. Simple random sampling technique was used for this selection. A researcher developed instrument entitled Physics Performance Test (PPT) was used for data collection. The instrument was subjected to face and content validity by a Physics teacher in a secondary school and two experts in test and measurement in the Department of Science Education, Akwa Ibom State University. A reliability test was conducted on the instrument using 20 students who were not part of the sample for the study and a reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained for the instrument using Kuder Richardson-20 (KR-20) reliability estimate. Mean and standard deviation were used for answering the research questions while independent t-test was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that students taught using concept mapping instructional strategy performed significantly better than those taught using team teaching instructional strategy. The result revealed no gender difference in students’ academic performance when taught using team teaching instructional strategy. However, male students performed better than their female counterpart in the concept mapping group. Consequently, it was recommended among other things, that physics teachers should incorporate team teaching and concept mapping learning strategies as these will help students to become active participants in the learning process thereby enhancing their performance in the subject.