EMERGING MYTHS AND REALITIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Abstract
One of the key points in Late President Yar’adua’s 7- point agenda is the
accomplishment of qualitative and functional Education. This can be monitored
through assessing academic achievement of students. Chemistry Education occupies a
central position to all disciplines. This study examined the correlates between age and
gender on academic achievement (CGPA) of Chemistry students. The study used thirty
six (36) females and forty (40) males giving a total of sample seventy eight (76).
Scatter – plot, mean and standard deviation were used for the descriptive statistics
while univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression were used for
inferential statistics. T-test was used to test the null hypothesis formulated (P<0.05).
Result revealed a linear relationship between, age-CGPA and gender-CGPA.A low
positive correlation coefficients was obtained for ages and gender (r=0.006 and 0.105)
which were not significant. The predictor variables jointly accounted for 1.1% of the
variance, age was the better predictor. The null hypothesis tested was accepted
implying no significant difference in academic achievements of students. It was
suggested that some more variables be included so as to determine significant
correlation of students’ academic achievement of Chemistry students.
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