EFFECT OF CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH ON CHEMISTRY STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA (A CASE STUDY OF JALINGO L.G.A TARABA STATE)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is a social process that changes society as well as adult’s role of society, skiing
responsibilities of education from parents to teacher and from family to school. Societies change its effective use of education in designing, developing, producing, implementing and evaluating curriculum. It aids teaching learning process in a classroom situation, increases both learning outcome and students’ achievements, reduces students’ dropouts and burden, stress, anxieties and frustration. So today’s development of new teaching strategies is essential for all-round developments of students. Chemistry is taught
in most schools as an abstract subject without much emphasis on practical experiences (Ghassan, 2007). This has resulted to students’ low acquisition of
science processing skills which has become more evident in the mass failure of students in the subject in public examinations. All the questions asked to test
the knowledge of chemistry students’ in practical skills require that they demonstrate one form of process skill or the other. The inability of students to carry
out these activities properly results in low scores in the test of practical knowledge. The shi
from the teacher-centred method of teaching science to studentcentred
activity based method encourages and develops in the child the spirit of inquiry. The student-centred activity method as opined by Akinbobola
(2006) attempts to make students fully aware as well as understand the ways scientists work and also equip and prepare them for their possible careers in
science, chemistry in particular, and process skills development. At the age of information, the rapid changes occurring in technology make obsolete the newly produced information’s and changes them in a very short time. Every society, institutions and individuals are usually obliged to keep up with these changes. This is the reason that faces to all these changing institutions and changing situations, the self-renewal and development have become now a necessity. In this case, instead of learning by heart information’s, individuals have the responsibility of producing new information’s and products based on this ancient knowledge
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