Abstract
The primary purposes of this study were to find out the performances of students in science education in Nigeria, a study of selected secondary schools in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State. In the first chapter, the researcher attempted a historical antecedent of science in general as a background to the study. The major objectives include the following;
- Availability of facilities that would make the teaching of science meaningful and effective
- The number f students assigned to science teachers and their level of passes in examinations
- Availability of enough and qualified teachers. To effectively complete the work, the researcher designed two types of questionnaires, one for science teachers and the other for the science students. The researcher also interviewed some science teachers, students and principals.
West African school certificate results of science subjects of 2003 – 2007 were collected from the principals of the schools visited.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
The teaching of science principles and concepts are regarded as the vehicle for rigid technological development and scientific innovations. There are other areas where good knowledge of science subject is required, such areas include manufacturing of nuclear power stations, production of medicine and related area such as geophysics. The role of science in both national and global development of technology cannot be over emphasized and the dynamic reorientation towards technological and industrial development has become imperative. It is for the purpose a achieving those objectives that the national policy of education emphasized the introduction of broad teaching of science subjects in schools curricula. However, the prospects of quick realization of these objectives are being threatened as a result of acute shortage of teachers of these subjects in the secondary schools in Uhunmwonde Local Government Area of Edo State. The situation has been further aggravated by the rapid increase in the number of secondary schools students as well as secondary institution without the corresponding increase in schools. This has consequently affected the quality of science teaching in the secondary schools in local government area. The effective teaching of science in secondary schools ought to be given an apt attention incur school if we are to achieve the desired result. Furthermore, current development in science and technology has so greatly affected the lives of every human being and to be ignored of the basic ideas of science is to hire in an empty meaningless and probably unrealistic world of science. To be now precise, a nation that is not scientifically inclined cannot be expected to make any reasonable progress whether in politics and economic development or in technological advancement. It stands to reason that scientific and technological; advancement constitutes the means by which most nations of the world have been classified as developed or underdeveloped.
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The teaching of science in secondary schools geared towards making everyone to become more conscience not only of the relevance of science but also of the simplicity of learning it. But this objective hindered the teaching of science in the local government area because of some vital factors that are stated below. Shortage of teachers of science in secondary schools can have several negatives effects on our determined objectives to march forward towards full industrialization, which will bring about national development and a possibility for job opportunities. The perennial problems of poor staffing and inadequate provision of secondary schools equipment in schools have been the chief cause of poor performance and lack of interest at this level in the local government area. Apart from low provision and staffing problems, the equipment already provided lack maintenance and suffers upgrading thereby, in the local government area of Edo State and elsewhere in this country. Also, in this local government parental background is looked upon. Majority of the students whose parents are accomplished farmers hardly develop position attitude towards science. These parents though have the money to send their children to school and provide learning materials for them still do not effectively encourage them to study science properly. This is because of their level of illiteracy, which results to low level of performance by the students.
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