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Title: | Influences of location, ownership, sex and grade level on junior secondary school students' performance in the science process skill of inferring |
Author: | Yilwa, Ambore V. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Annals of Borno |
Volume: | 17-18 |
Pages: | 57-69 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | academic achievement curriculum pupils secondary education |
Abstract: | This study examines the question of whether junior secondary school students' ability to infer is influenced by grade level, sex, school location and school ownership, as well as by interactions between these variables. The samples for the study, which was carried out in 1988, were 700 junior secondary school students, selected from 13 schools in Bauchi and Gombe States, Nigeria. Superiority of performance was recorded for students in higher grade levels over those in lower grade levels; federal government colleges over those in private and State governments schools; private schools over those in States government schools; and urban over those in rural schools. There was no significant difference in the performances of male and female students in the test. The study recommends among other things that educators should give extra attention to the teaching of science process skills especially in State government-owned and rural junior secondary schools. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |