Abstract: This study aimed at investigating the impact of prior knowledge of behavioural objectives of a lesson on students’ academic performance in Biu local Government Area Borno state. A quasi experimental pretest – posttest – control group design was used for the study. Four groups (comprising 360 senior secondary two (SS11) students from Biu Community Secondary School in Borno State were taught for 6 weeks of 14 sessions. Three of the groups were prior-presented with objectives on topics in English at different time intervals before each lesson while the control group was taught without prior knowledge of behavioural objectives. Test instrument, Researcher made performance Test (RMPT), comprised of a 35 item multiple choice questions, was administered one week before the teaching session as pretest and 5 weeks after the teaching session as posttest. Data collected was analyzed by Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and Schefe’s pairwise comparisons at 0.05 alpha levels. The result showed an initial mean difference (ID) of 3.87 at pretest level for the treatment and the control group and a net mean difference (NMD) of 2.96. The net mean difference showed there was a gain for the treatment group. Also there was no significant gender difference on academic performance of students taught with prior knowledge of behavioural objectives and those taught without it in the ( experimental and the control group). Table 4.2 on gender (F3), F=0.202, df(1,359),p-value= 0.653, partial eta square =0.001. Since p=0.6537>0.005, it means there is no significant difference on gender, therefore, Null hypothesis H02 is accepted. The partial eta square 0.001 shows there is no effect of gender on academic performance in senior secondary schools in Biu local area Borno state.
Keywords: behavior objectives, academic performance, and prior knowledge.
Title: IMPACT OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF BEHAVIOURAL OBJECTIVES ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BIU, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
Author: ABDU MOHAMMED
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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