EFFECT OF ACTIVE REVIEW STRATEGY ON STUDENT’S ATTITUDE TO BASIC SCIENCE IN OYO STATE

<doi>10.24250/jpe/2/2024/OAG/AGS/AOA/</doi>

Abstract

This study determined the effects of active review strategy on
students’ attitude to basic science. The study adopted the pretestposttest
control group, quasi-experimental design. 262 JSS II
students from four co-educational schools in two Local
Government Areas (LGAs) of Oyo state were randomly assigned
to treatment and control groups. The instruments used were:
Students Basic Science Attitude Scale (r=0.86) and Teachers
Instructional guides. Three questions and three hypotheses were
formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The data
collected were analysis using descriptive statistic and analysis
of covariance ,the treatment had significant main effect on
students’ attitude to basic science(F(1, 254)=13.294;p<0.05,
partial n2=0.067). Mean while there was no significant effect of
gender and parental educational background on students’
attitude to basic science. Based on the finding of this study, active
review strategy is recommended to be adopted for the
improvement of students’ attitude to basic science among others.