Influence of Study Questions as Advance Organizers on Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Physics in Plateau State, Nigeria

Lawrence David Fwangmun; Wuyep Lar Simvyap; Nuhu Yohanna Abot

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Influence of Study Questions as Advance Organizers on Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Physics in Plateau State, Nigeria

Lawrence David Fwangmun, Wuyep Lar Simvyap, Nuhu Yohanna Abot

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 11, Issue 1)

Received: 2 September 2022 Accepted: 12 October 2022 Published: 17 January 2023

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This study investigated the influence of Study Questions as Advance Organizers on Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Secondary School Physics in Mangu L. G. A., Plateau State. The research design is quasi experimental pretest, posttest and non-equivalent group of independent variables. The total population of students is 1,094 with male population of 787 and female population of 307 drawn from 11 secondary schools. The sample consisted of 97 students with 76 in the experimental and 21 in the control group while the instruments used for data collection was Physics Achievement Test (PAT) for both students’ achievement and retention in physics with a reliability coefficient of r=0.796. The tools used for the analysis and testing of hypotheses were descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation and the t-test for paired samples variables. The findings showed that students in the experimental group had higher achievement mean scores; students in the experimental group showed high retention ability and that there is a significant difference in the mean achievement score of students in the control and experimental group; there is a significant difference in the retention of students in the experimental group and after the entire treatment period of exposure to study questions. The study recommends among others, that; the ministry of education through the education resource center in plateau state, school administrators and the government provide adequate training and retraining of teachers to enhance their competence and mastery of how to use study question for effective teaching and learning process.

Published in	Science Journal of Education (Volume 11, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjedu.20231101.15
Page(s)	31-35
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Study Questions, Advance Organizers, Academic Achievement, Retention

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Lawrence David Fwangmun, Wuyep Lar Simvyap, Nuhu Yohanna Abot. Influence of Study Questions as Advance Organizers on Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Physics in Plateau State, Nigeria. Sci J Educ. 2023;11(1):31-35. doi: 10.11648/j.sjedu.20231101.15

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Lawrence David Fwangmun

Department of Physics, Government Science School Kuru, Plateau State, Nigeria
Wuyep Lar Simvyap

Department of Science Education, Federal University of Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria
Nuhu Yohanna Abot

Department of Physics, Kaduna State College of Education, Kaduna State, Nigeria

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