Abstract
The study determined the effect of lecture contact hours on the academic performance of undergraduate Mathematics students in Mathematics in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. Ex-post facto analytic survey research design was used for this study. The population of the study was 159 undergraduate Mathematics students from the department of Mathematics/Statistics of the University for 2020/2021 academic session. The sample data set from the 143 sampled students used for the study was 460. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample. The research instrument for this study was Attendance and Performance Course Sheet (APCS). Test-retest method was used to obtain the reliability index of 0.78 for APCS through Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). Simple percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and analysis of variance were used for data analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the extent of undergraduate Mathematics students’ attendance to lectures is high and their academic performance is good. Further findings of the study showed that undergraduate students with high lecture contact hours significantly outperformed their counterparts with low lecture contact hours but there was no significant effect of lecture contact hours on the mathematics performance of the male and the female undergraduate students. The study recommended among others that University management should make and enforce the policy that students without 70% lecture attendance should not be allowed to write semester examination while lecturers should ensure that they take lecture attendance and enforce compliance on policy statements on examination attendance and examination writing to encourage students attending lectures.
Keywords
Lecture, contact hours, academic performance, undergraduate students, Mathematics
Citations
IRE Journals:
Zalmon Ibaan Gogo , Daso Peter Ojimba , West Samuel Owunari
"Lecture Contact Hours and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Mathematics Students" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 5 Issue 8 2022 Page 19-26
IEEE:
Zalmon Ibaan Gogo , Daso Peter Ojimba , West Samuel Owunari
"Lecture Contact Hours and Academic Performance of Undergraduate Mathematics Students" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 5(8)
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