EFFECT OF FISHBONE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN CHEMISTRY IN CALABAR MUNICIPALITY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CROSS RIVER STATE

he study investigated the effect of fishbone instructional strategy on students' academic chievement in chemistry in Calabar Municipal Local Government Area of Cross River tate, Nigeria. The moderating effect of gender and school ownership/type we're also westigated. The study adopted a pretest-posttest, an experimental and control group, uasi-experimental design. The instruments used for data collection we're lesson notes or-an experimental group and a control group; and chemistry Achievement Test (CAT). ‘he target population was 2800 senior secondary two students offering chemistry in ublic secondary schools and private secondary schools in the study area. A sample of 30 students (male =67 and female=63) drawn from two schools; one public and one rivate secondary school within Calabar Municipality Local Government Area (LGA) in Cross. ‘River State Nigeria was selected using purposive sampling technique. Three esearch questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The research questions vere answered using mean and standard deviation scores while the null hypotheses were ested at 0.05 level of significance using results from Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). t was recommended among others that since fishbone instructional strategy was found to Ie an - effective strategy for improving students’ academic Achievement in chemistry; earners “should be encouraged to learn with the new strategy and also realize the importarice- of learning chemistry, teachers should be discouraged from the continuous use of conventional teaching methods and be trained on the use of fishbone strategy; and curriculum planners should be equipped and made more knowledgeable in understanding the: new, strategy and providing necessary resources for the strategy and it's administration. suggestions were made for further study.