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VOL. 9, ISSUE 2 (2024)
Cognitive styles as correlate of secondary school students’ academic achievement in biology in Awka education zone, Anambra state
Authors
Amuchechukwu Precious Enwedo, Josephine Nwanneka Okoli
Abstract
Biology is one of the important subjects
taught in secondary schools in Nigeria, but has witnessed poor achievement by
students. Teachers are faced with the need to look out for cognitive styles
that could enhance learning, in order to improve students’ academic achievement.
This study investigated cognitive styles as correlate of secondary school
students’ academic achievement in Biology in Awka Education Zone, Anambra
State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were
tested. The study adopted a correlational research design. Population of the
study comprised 4175 senior secondary year two (SSII) biology
students in the 193 public secondary schools in the zone. The sample comprised 519 SS2 biology students which were selected
using a multi-stage, sampling procedure that involved stratified random
sampling, simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques. Biology
Students’ Cognitive Style Questionnaire’ (BSCSQ) was used to collect data on
students’ cognitive styles in Biology, while data for academic achievement was
collected from the annual result record sheets (SS1 annual cumulative result of
2022/2023 academic session) in each of the sampled school. The instrument for
data collection was validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha was employed for
the reliability of the instrument and reliability coefficient of 0.81 was
obtained for the cognitive styles instrument. Data were collected with the aid
of research assistants who were biology teachers. Research questions were
answered using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient while the
hypotheses were tested also with multiple regression at 0.05 level of
significance. Findings from the study among others revealed that there was a high positive relationship between senior secondary school
students’ cognitive styles and academic achievement in biology in Anambra State.
Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, biology teachers
should be encouraged to consider cognitive styles in teaching of students so as
to make them achieve better in the subject.
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Pages:28-33
How to cite this article:
Amuchechukwu Precious Enwedo, Josephine Nwanneka Okoli "Cognitive styles as correlate of secondary school students’ academic achievement in biology in Awka education zone, Anambra state". International Journal of Advanced Education and Research, Vol 9, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 28-33
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