FACTORS AFFECTING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS LEARNING CHEMISTRY IN BAUCHI METROPOLIS

ABTRACTS The study focused on investigating the factors affecting secondary school students’ attitude towards learning chemistry in Bauchi metropolis. The research has two specific objectives, two research questions and one research hypothesis which were meant to guide the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of this study comprised of 12,437 chemistry students in the senior secondary schools in Bauchi metropolis of Bauchi state, Nigeria. The sample of study consisted of 375 students in which 167 were male and 208 were female students. The students were selected using simple random sampling. Attitude Towards Chemistry Questionnaire (ATCQ) was used as an instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions while inferential statistics was used to analyze the hypothesis. The findings revealed that, the gender of students affects their attitude towards learning chemistry, the age of students affects their attitude toward learning chemistry and there is significance difference in the mean attitude of male and female students toward learning chemistry. The study recommended that, the teachers, school administrators, parents, and the community to support students developing positive attitudes, particularly female students, by addressing all the issues that affect their attitudes.