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FACTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH MASS FAILURE OF STUDENTS IN BIOLOGY IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
ABSTRACT
The
non-proficiency of Nigerian students in Biology has been a major concern of the
research. Therefore, the researcher problem into the causes of mass failure in
Biology in senior secondary schools in Logo Local Government Area of Benue
State.
The research
was carried out in five secondary schools in Logo Local Government Area.
Questionnaire was designed for the purpose of data collection from a hundred
students chosen at random with twenty students from each school. The simple
percentage and frequency distribution tables were used to analyse the data.
The study
revealed that the students believed that Biology is an interesting subject to
study, but that lack of qualified teachers, inadequate teaching materials, bad
reading culture, parents’ illiteracy, bad attitude of students to Biology, poor
environmental conditions, overpopulation in the classroom, laziness of teachers
to work, and truancy on the part of the students cause failure in Biology.
From the
findings, if the recommendations are carefully considered and employed by the
teachers, school authorities and government, mass failure among students in
Biology would be reduced.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1BACKGROUND
TO THE STUDY
The teacher
of Biology has been facing a lot of problems especially in secondary school in
Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The problems at this level had
resulted into many other problems confronting the students of higher
institutions of learning, with what has been experienced in the past and
present about the side of seriousness of the students to Biology motivated me
to focus attention on the problems encountered by the students and teachers
alike as regards Biology.
Also, this
will involve the enumeration and analysis of the problems facing the teaching
of the subject, suggested solution will also be given. Many students count
Biology as a difficult subject in secondary schools nowadays due to their
negative attitude to it. Also, many students find it difficult to read Biology
textbooks because they have no time to read. Many students have this to say
about Biology, ‘I have interest in other subjects but not Biology’. The reason
for this could be traced back to students’ poor foundation in the study of
Biology. Therefore, if students in higher institutions of learning can go on
complaining that Biology is difficult to comprehend, what then will be the fate
of secondary school students who depend so much on the students in the higher
institutions.
In fact,
many students fail their final year examinations both at junior and senior
secondary schools in Biology due to one reason or the other such as parental
responsibilities, students’ factor, schools’ factor, government factor, lack of
motivation, lack of relevant materials as well as inadequate curriculum. This
has therefore motivated me to investigate the problem encountered by Biology
teachers in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State. The negligence of
Biology has driven many students in the past to mass failure in the final
examination. Many people read Biology for examination purposes only.
1.2STATEMENT
OF RESEARCH PROBLEM
A lot of
problems have contributed to students’ mass failure in Biology in Logo Local
Government Area of Benue State. Many parents blame the teachers’ negative
attitude to work while many pupils’ negligence of their class work contributes
to failure as well. This research work purposely assesses the causes of the
problems confronting students in Logo Local Government Area. So many scholars
have written a lot about the problem of Biology in our secondary schools but
work is very scanty on that of Logo Local Government Area. So it gives me a
great concern to look at these problems and suggest possible solution to them.
1.3SIGNIFICANCE
OF STUDY
Many
scholars have written on Biology and its importance in the school curriculum.
This project is an additional effort in this direction. It will go a long way
to assist the teaching of Biology in Logo Local Government.
1.4SCOPE OF
THE STUDY
The Local
Government headquarter is at Ibona where the secretariat is situated. Secondary
schools were from different areas of the Local Government. The names of the
schools chosen are:
St. James
Grammar Schools, LogoØ
A.D.S
Grammar School LogoØ
Anglican
Grammar School, LogoØ
Islaudeen
Inter. school, LogoØ
Logo
Community High School, IbongoØ
The reason
for selecting only these five secondary schools for this project work was due
to some problems encountered during the research period. The problems included
inadequate finance, transportation problem, and inadequate supply of
information from the school principals.
1.5 RESEARCH
QUESTION
For the
course of this study the research formed some basic question that will help the
researcher obtain a result to this research work, questions which will be
administered to the respondents and they are.
1.What made
you fail biology as a subject in the school and pass others well?
2.Apart from
the fact that you fail biology, is biology one of your favorite subject?
3.If yes,
what is the reason behind it and if no what made you not to like it at the
first place
4.Are they
qualified teachers in you schools who teach this subject?
5.How many
times do you have a class for biology study within a week as compared to other
subjects?
1.6RESEARCH
HYPOTHESES
1.Ho:Biology
is not an interesting subject to the students
Ha:Biology
is an interesting subject to the student
2.Ho:Lack of
qualified teachers can not cause failure in Biology
Ha:Lack of
qualified teachers can cause failure in Biology
3.
Ho:Inadequate teaching materials can not cause failure in Biology
Ha:Inadequate
teaching materials can cause failure in Biology
4.Ho:Bad
reading culture can not cause failure in Biology
Ha:Bad
reading culture can cause failure in Biology
5.Ho:Parents’
illiteracy can not cause failure in Biology
Ha:Parents’
illiteracy can cause failure in Biology
6.Ho:Environmental
conditions can not cause failure in Biology
Ha:Environmental
conditions can cause failure in Biology
1.7 RESEARCH
LIMITATION
The fact
that, Logo local government area of Benue state is a big local government area
as far as Secondary schools are concerned, it is impossible for the researcher
to research in all the Secondary schools within the local government area due
to financial, economic and other constraints, the research or study therefore
covers only five selected Secondary schools within the local government area.
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