GENDER AND SCHOOL TYPE AS CORRELATES OF STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Gender, School Types, Senior Secondary Schools Students, Performance in Science SubjectsAbstract
Research has shown that the provision of equal educational opportunity to male and female children in different school types has not been substantially met in area of Science Education. This study investigated gender and school types as correlates of students’ performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. A total of 1080 science students and was used as samples. A Science performance test was used for data collection. Two Research questions were answered and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 levels of significance, using t-test and Multiple Regression Analysis. The result revealed that male students performed better than their female counterparts in science subjects except in Biology (male = 10.06 and female = 10.03). The highest difference is in chemistry (7.09 for males and 5.22 for females) followed by physics (9.76 and 8.67 for males and females respectively).Male students in single-sex schools had higher overall performance mean scores (9.33) than female students (8.76) in co-educational, Also, female students in single sex schools performed better (8.10) than their male counterparts (7.92) from co-educational schools. School type has the most profound predictive strength on students’ performance in Chemistry (B = 1.055). This is closely followed by Physics (B = .686); while the least came from Biology (B = -.189). It was therefore, recommended that gender and School type held potency in predicting academic performance of senior secondary schools students’ science.
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