Teaching Methods And Academic Performance Of Physical And Health Educations Students

Teaching Methods And Academic Performance Of Physical And Health Educations Students
Teaching Methods And Academic Performance Of Physical And Health Educations Students

ABSTRACT: The study examined Teaching Methods and Academic Performance of Physical and Health Educations Students in secondary schools in Ika Local Government Area. Two research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study and were all tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design used was quasi-experimental. The target population was made up of all junior secondary two (JSS2) Physical and Health Education student randomly selected from ten secondary schools constituted the sample size. Physical Education Performance Test (PEPT) was the instrument for data collection, mean, standard deviation and independent t-test statistics were used to analyze the data obtained.

The result revealed that there was a significant difference in students’ academic performance taught using demonstration method and those taught using lecture method; and that there was a significant difference in students’ academic performance taught using discussion method and those taught using field trip method in Physical and Health Education. Based on the findings, it is therefore recommended that Physical and Education teachers should incorporate demonstration and discussion method of teaching during lesson delivery in the subject.

 

Teaching Methods And Academic Performance Of Physical And Health Educations Students

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the study

The primary purpose of teaching at any level of education is to bring a fundamental change to the learner (Tebabel and Kahssay, 2011). To facilitate the process of knowledge transmission teachers should apply appropriate method of teaching that best suit specific objectives. The goal of teaching is to impart knowledge to the learners and outside the classroom. Teaching involves the use of appropriate strategy or methods that will capture the attention and interest of the learners. This is because the rule of teachers is to guide the learners properly by arousing their interest to participate fully in order to attain the goals, learners are usually given the opportunity to ask questions and obtain information to analyze their problems and purpose solutions through various skills, by marking judgement   and evaluating their progress.

Teaching is an attempt to help someone, acquire the prerequisite skills, attitude, knowledge and values which will enhance a change in behaviour. Teacher’s task is to create a conducive atmosphere for learning and ensure behaviour of the learners/student. This implies that success in teaching is measured by the degree to which the teacher is able to achieve the desired learning outcome. To achieve this, the teacher must select the content and method to use (star, 2010).

Moreover, research on the teaching and learning constantly endeavour to examine the extent to which different teaching method enhance growth in student learning, and remarkable academic performance of student in various examinations to an ineffective teaching method (Ademola, 2011). Substantial research on the effectiveness of teaching method indicates that quality of teaching is often reflected by the achievement of learners. According to Ayeni (2011), teaching is a process that involves bringing about desirable changes in learners so as to achieve specific outcome. In order for teaching method to be effective, Ademola (2011) maintains that teachers need to be conversant with numerous teaching strategies that takes cognizance of the magnitude of the complexity of the concept to be covered.

The Nigeria certificate in Education/Distance learning system course book (2019) asserts that, teaching methods as a process of selecting, directing controlling and evaluating the experiences of the child to achieve desirable learning outcome (Eddie 2006). To achieve the objectives of education as selected by the federal government of Nigeria in National Policy on Education (2014), asserts that serious efforts must be made to ensure that proper teaching process takes place in schools. This implies that conducive learning environment must be put in place and appropriate strategies must be adopted Coilsamalia, 2015).

Research by Reid and Shahi (2017) have shown that the most rewarding approach for teaching physical and health is the use of participatory approach. This method actually involves students participation resulting in new discovery through activities and discussion. There are different techniques for effective and efficient teaching which include: Demonstration method, lecture method, and discussion method etc. Selection of appropriate techniques for physical and health education instrument depends on theoretical competence of the teacher to handle the technique and the nature of instruction itself. As such, this research intends to examine teaching methods and academic performance of physical and health educations students is secondary schools in Ika Local Government Area. However, methodology is very vital in any teaching/learning process. The method used by a teacher may promote or hinder learning of physical and health education in Ika Local Government Area.

Teaching Methods And Academic Performance Of Physical And Health Educations Students

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Academic performance of a student depends on the teaching method used by the teacher. This could be the consequence of ineffective teaching which might cause poor academic performance in physical and health education. Academic performance are somewhat associated with methods of teaching, for instance, students with better performance scored higher in concrete experience, abstract conceptualization and reflective observation than those with poor academic performance (Cano and Justiceca, 2003). This could be the consequent of ineffective teaching which might cause poor academic performance in physical and health Education.

Physical Education is education that is aimed at developing student’s physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety, and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities associated with the development of active and healthy lifestyle, hence the adoption of methods that will sufficiently convey this message to the understanding of the students is a necessity. The efficient transfer of knowledge here requires some instructional strategies. The physical and health education teacher needs to acquire competence in transferring the content to the learner and mostly competence in the use of variety of teaching method.  

Student’s poor performance in physical and health education has been the main concern of this research. Derek 2018 reported the seriousness of the deplorable performance of secondary school student studying physical and health which identifies persistent use of the traditional mode of instruction as one of the major short comings that affect the learning of higher achievement in physical and health Education which has been partly ascribed to inadequate teaching and instructional strategy adopted in physical and health Education.

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