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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: This study investigated the effectiveness of team teaching on performance of Biology concepts among Senior Secondary School Students in Giwa Educational Zone of Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria. A total of 120 students consisting of 60 females and 60 males formed the sample for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used. The subjects were divided into two groups; the experimental group N=60 and the control group N=60. The study adopted the pretest and posttest quasi experimental and control group design. A pretest was administered before the treatment to establish the equivalence of the experimental and control groups. The subjects in the experimental group were taught using Team Teaching, while the control group subjects were exposed to the lecture method for a period of six weeks. The topics taught were Variation, Genetics and Evolution. A designed Biology Achievement Test (EAT) was adopted from biology textbook questions and past WAEC examination questions with reliability of 0.98. These were validated for data collection. Two null hypotheses were tested and t-test statistic was used to determine significant difference of the two groups at p?0.05. The major findings from the study include the following: there is significant difference in the mean academic performance scores of experimental and control groups in favour of experimental group. On the gender related issue team teaching favoured male students over the female in academic performance. Based on the findings it was concluded that senior secondary school biology students learn Biology concepts better when taught using team teaching and it was therefore recommended that team teaching should be used by biology teachers to teach Variation, Genetics and Evolution concepts and other similar concepts in biology. |
| Keywords: academic performance, team teaching, biology, secondary, students |
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