Identification of the Areas of Students Difficulties in Chemistry Curriculum at the Secondary School Level
Journal Title: International journal of Emerging Trends in Science and Technology - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
This study focused on identification of difficult chemistry topics on the secondary school curriculum. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain data from fifty students by simple random sampling technique. Frequency and mean were used to answer the research questions. The results obtained indicated that eight topics out of eighteen topics listed in the chemistry curriculum are difficult. The results also revealed that there is a relationship between the students’ interests and the topics they considered difficult and that there is a significant difference between the topics considered difficult by the male and female students. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher made a number of recommendations, including; training and refresher courses for chemistry teachers, employment of professionally qualified chemistry teachers, use of discovery approach in teaching chemistry, among others.
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Omiko Akani
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