EFFECTS OF MATHEMATICS PRE-TEACHING ON SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY IN ILORIN, NIGERIA
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2023-11-01
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Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education
Abstract
Genetics is a branch of Biology that deals with the study of heredity and
variation is considered one of the hard-to-teach and hard-to-learn
biological concepts in literature. Conceptual understanding of genetics
enhances students' performance in both internal and external
examinations. The study, therefore, sought to examine the effects of
mathematics pre-teaching on senior school students' achievement in
genetics. Specifically, two research questions and corresponding
hypotheses were raised and tested in the study. All the hypotheses were
tested at 0.05 level of significant. The study adopted a quasi-experimental
research design and the samples for the study were drawn from two intact
classes that were purposively selected from Ilorin metropolis. Genetics
Achievement Test and Mathematics pre-teaching manual served as the
response and stimulus instruments respectively. Findings from the study
revealed that students exposed to Mathematics pre-teaching
instructional strategy achieved significantly better than their counterpart
that were taught using the conventional method. Gender also did not
have any significant influence on the achievement of male and female
students taught using the mathematics pre-teaching strategy. Based on
the findings from the study, it was concluded that exposing students to
basic mathematical concepts that are relevant to proper understanding of
genetics brings about better understanding of genetics and hence,
improves their achievement in genetics. It was therefore recommended
that teachers could adopt pre-teaching of the mathematical components
of genetics before teaching genetics.