THE STUDY OF PERFORMANCE OF 100 LEVEL N.C.E STUDENT OF ISC/BIOLOGY AND ISC/CHEMISTRY ON PHYSICAL RELATED COURSES (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
In this more advance transformation, information and technology era, one of the lesson considered important as the basic for knowledge and technology acquisition is integrated science/Biology (ISC/BIOLOGY), (Checkley, 2010).
This quite makes sense, because ISC/Biology is part of science (Ben, 2010), where science has direct effects and relation to various life fields and also jobs based on information and technology (Ukoh, 2012). Further, (Awodun, 2013) state that almost every life field have relation with ISC/Biology like organism or inanimate, form Engineering to Mathematics, Biology and Chemistry.
According to (Mekonnenet’ al, 2014) without ISC/Biology Science knowledge, human will face difficulties in exploring the universe, further more (Elwan et al, 2013) state that the understanding of ISC/Biology helps to understand the content of universe and for student, it helps to develop the observation skill, accuracy, analysis ability, creative thinking and ISC/Biology Science acquisition which is now very required and cannot be avoided by student (Ukoh, 2012).
Nevertheless, the student result study of ISC/Biology is still low in all levels (Ukoh, 2012, Ganina, 2009 and Mekonnen, 2014). The low student study result of ISC/Biology is caused by many factors such as intern and extern factors for the student (Carbone et al, 2009). The intern factors may be attitude, motivation, interest, knowledge, skills, hope, assumption and goal (Wulan sari, 2012) whole the extern factor is the student study environment condition (Redish, 2005), like the utilization of teaching method by the teachers (Changeiywo, 2011) family environment and the availability o0f learning facility and infrastructure (Iliya, 2013)
One of the intern factors affecting the study achievement is student interest to the material taught. As mentioned in (Djamarah, 2002). Teaching learning strategy, if a student has high study interest, the study result to be high in contract if the interest is less, the study result will be low.
