THE ATTITUDE OF FINAL YEAR STUDENTS TOWARDS LEARNING OF PHYSICS IN IHIALA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ANAMBRA STATE
Journal Title: Journal of Science And Arts - Year 2012, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
The deterioration in the popularity of physics education over the period of secondary schooling and beyond have been the reason for serious concern on educational and economic grounds. The purpose of this study was to find out the problems encountered by the final year students towards learning of physics. Three research questions guided the study with population of 200 students and 20 science teachers through simple random sampling. The method of data collection was through questionnaire and observation, the research questions where analyzed using mean rating scale of 2.5 point. Hence any item in the questionnaire with mean below 2.5 was rejected and above 2.5 was accepted. The results obtained from the study revealed that, gender influence, problem solving method and practical physics where some of the problems of students negative attitude towards learning of physics. The findings of this research showed that students negative attitude towards physics were due to, students are not allowed to perform practical individually because of insufficient equipments in the laboratories and also female students do shy away from studying physics because they hold that physics is for selected few. Based on the findings, it was recommended that practical equipments should be made available to secondary schools and there is need for orientation on the part of the female students for the studying of physics.
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OLIKAGU ONYINYE, NGOZI AGATA OKEREKE
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