Effects of Concept Mapping Teaching Strategy on Students’ Academic Performance and Retention in Senior Secondary School Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria
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This study investigated the effects of Concept mapping teaching strategy on students’ academic
performance and retention in senior secondary school Physics in Ekiti state, Nigeria. The design
for this study was Pretest-Posttest Quasi-Experimental. The population for the study was all the
senior secondary class two (SS2) Physics students in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State,
Nigeria. The sample comprised thirty five (35) students from each of the two public secondary
schools randomly selected in Ikere Local Government Area to make a total of seventy (70) SS2
students. One of the schools was selected for the experimental group while the other assigned for
the control group. The experimental group was taught using Concept-mapping teaching strategy
while the control group was taught using conventional method. Three null hypotheses were
formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance to guide the study. The instrument for data
collection was thirty (30) standardized objective questions tagged: Physics Achievement Test
(PAT). The data collected were analysed using t-test statistical analysis. The findings showed
that: in the pre-test, the obtained mean scores are not significantly different from another which
showed that the two groups selected are homogeneous. The obtained post-test mean scores of
experimental group was significantly higher than the post-test mean scores of the control group.
Also, the obtained retentive-test mean score of experimental group was significantly higher than
the retentive-test mean scores of the control group. The findings revealed that, students in
concept mapping teaching strategy group performed significantly better than their counterpart
of conventional method. Conclusion and recommendations were also made in this paper.
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