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April 2011
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This study reports on the influence of teaching experience and school location teachers on Biology teachers' rating of difficulty levels of Nutrition concepts in Ilorin, Nigeria. The study compared the ratings of experienced and less-experienced teachers, and also those of teachers whose schools were located in the urban and rural areas. A researcher-designed teacher's questionnaire was administered to one hundred and forty eight (148) teachers selected from Ilorin metropolis. The teachers rated the level of difficulty of nutrition concepts as very difficult, moderately difficult or easy. The participating teachers also gave reasons for their ratings. The data obtained were analyzed using weighted means, to rank-order the level of difficulty of all the thirty-three (33) nutrition concepts in the senior secondary school Biology syllabus. Reasons for the level of difficulty of each item were derived from simple frequency count of the responses of the teachers. Chi-square (X 2) test at 0.05 alpha level of significance was used to compare the ratings of the teachers. Findings of the study revealed that some Biology teachers rated nutrition concepts as difficult as (20.90% rating moderately difficult and 28.40% rating very difficult) while the remaining (50.70%) Biology teachers disagreed that nutrition concepts were not difficult to teach. No significant difference was found in the ratings of teachers in the rural and urban schools, but there was significant difference between the ratings of the less-experienced and the experienced Biology teachers on the difficulty levels of the nutrition concepts. The reasons given for the difficulty include abstractness (48.40%), complexity (27.30%), insufficient teaching experience (12.10%), lack of teaching aids (9.10%) and sophistication (3.10%.). In the light of the findings of this study, it is recommended that experienced teachers should be made to handle the identified difficult concepts of nutrition in Biology. Also, a more practical approach should be used in the teaching of the concepts, in addition to Government's sponsorship of Biology teachers to seminars, workshops and conferences to improve their subject-matter knowledge and teaching skills.
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... This conclusion was drawn from the research question examining the level of awareness among science lecturers. The results align with Gbadamosi (2013), who found that Biology teachers had high awareness of innovative teaching strategies, with an awareness rate of 88%. Similarly, Okpaje, Bello, and Babagana (2018) found that science teachers in the Federal Capital Territory had a high level of awareness regarding laboratory management techniques. ...
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January 2014
... Students attributed their poor results to factors such as teaching methodology, lecturer attitudes, and limited exposure to practical work. While numerous studies have identified strategies to address these challenges, such as Computer Assisted Instruction, the use of text structures, pre-teaching mathematical components (Paul, 2018; INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY STUDIES Alabi, 2016;Buseri, 2014;and Gbigbadua, 2020), and clarifying terminology in genetics, these efforts have only led to marginal improvements in recent times and average academic achievement , though no study known to this researcher has been carried out on the use of online or blended learning in recent time Achievement refers to the level of academic content a student has successfully learned over a given period. Barowski and Carter (2023) described achievement as the quantity and quality of learning, often measured through assessments, examinations, and comprehension tests. ...
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January 2015
... During this stage, researchers started experimenting with concept mapping, Gowin's V mapping, etc.; (e) Correlating the existence of alternative conceptions with other theoretically-based observations, such as Piagetian, Ausubelian and Brunerian theories; (f) Focus on the origin of misconceptions and alternative conceptions, "the role of language, culture (both inter-and intra-culture), religion and environment in the development of knowledge" (p. 4) (e.g., Abdulsalaam, Abimbola, & Ahmed, 2014; Hewson and Hamlyn, 1983;Olawepo, Abimbola, & Ahmed (2014); and (g) Reflective stage: where? What? ...
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January 2014
... All these strategies and their effectiveness depend on all things being equal and it is the responsibility of the learner to make all things to be equal! Examples of studies that had investigated and established the efficacy of some of the principles and strategies are: Gbigbadua, Abimbola, & Ahmed (2012), which investigated the effects of pre-instructional word-clearing strategy on achievement in biology among senior secondary school students in Ilorin, Nigeria; Abdulkadir, Abimbola, & Ahmed (2013) investigated the effects of teachers' use of checksheets on senior school students' achievement in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria; and Adeoye and Abimbola (2016) on the effects of senior school students' use of demonstration kit on their achievement in biology in Omu-Aran, Nigeria, which favoured high-scoring students against other students. Another one is Ahmed, R. (2018), on effects of study technology learning strategies on senior school students' achievement in ecology in Ilorin, Nigeria. ...
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January 2012
... Additionally, the study revealed that students with both high and low intelligence quotients achieved better results when taught with CAI. (Ahmed, 2011) conducted another study in Bauchi State, Nigeria, focusing on the effects of CAIP on biology students' understanding of generic concepts. The findings showed that the experimental group outperformed the control group, and gender disparities were significant when CAIP was used. ...
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