INFLUENCE OF TEACHING METHOD ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN CIVIC EDUCATION IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BENIN CITY, EDO STATE
Abstract
This study examined influence of teaching method on senior secondary school students’ academic performance in civic education in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City, Edo State. In order to meet this purpose, three research questions were raised and three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. Correlative survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised three hundred and ten (310) teachers as at the time of this study. These are two hundred and fifty (150) from Ihogbe College hundred and sixty (160) in Edokpolor Grammar School (Ministry of Education, Benin City). The sample size was thirty (30), fifteen (15) teachers’ from each senior secondary school and was obtained using simple random sampling by balloting. The research instrument was a questionnaire titled “Influence of teacher’s knowledge of subject matter on student’s academic performance in senior secondary schools using Ihogbe College (senior school) and Edokpolor Grammer School as the case study in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City, Edo State”. The questionnaire was administered personally to the proposed sampled of the study in the selected senior secondary schools after necessary permission has been obtained from the school authority. The research questions were answered using descriptive statistics of mean and percentage, while the hypotheses were tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistics at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The result obtained from the investigation indicated that, Teacher’s knowledge of subject matter has a significance influence on the academic performance of senior secondary school students’ in Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State; Teacher’s knowledge of subject matter has a significance influence on the academic performance of senior secondary school students’ based on gender; and Teacher’s knowledge of subject matter has a significance influence on the academic performance of senior secondary school students’ based on age. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Curriculum planners should develop the curriculum to an extent that teachers’ are enabling to better shape students’ cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains of students’ on different subjects; and Teachers’ should be able to use subject matter to enable students improve their academic performance and to contribute effectively in their environment.
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