Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Elements of Instructions on Students’ Performances in Basic General Mathematics in Colleges of Education in Kano State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study investigated the elements of instructions relating to both the students and mathematics teachers on students’ performances in Basic General Mathematics in Colleges of Education in Kano State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and to realise the objectives of the study, six research questions and six hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of all NCE I students admitted in the 2022/2023 session in Kano State College of Education and Preliminary Studies. The sample of the study consisted of one hundred (100) students drawn from the five School in the College using a cluster, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select twenty (20) students from each comprising of 50 male and 50 female. The instruments used for the study were the Students’ Attitude (adopted from Round, 2005), Readiness, Interest (adopted from Snow, 2011) and Teachers Attitude Questionnaires. All the adopted instruments were adapted to suit the peculiarity of the present study. The data for the study were collected through the administration of the questionnaire and by referring to the first and second semester examinations for the 2022/2023 academic session results files. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) for research questions and an inferential statistics (Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation) for the hypotheses. The study concludes that readiness to academic pursuit positively influence the academic performance of the students and other independent variables cannot be conclusively adjudged as not impacting on the academic performance. The study recommends that Mathematics teachers should endeavour to change the students’ attitude towards mathematics so as to improve the students’ interest and boost performances.
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IRE Journals:
Sulaiman Habib Abdu , Muhammad Umar, SUMAILA (Ph.D.) , Suleiman Ibrahim Sabo
"Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Elements of Instructions on Students’ Performances in Basic General Mathematics in Colleges of Education in Kano State, Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 8 Issue 9 2025 Page 1232-1243
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Sulaiman Habib Abdu , Muhammad Umar, SUMAILA (Ph.D.) , Suleiman Ibrahim Sabo
"Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Elements of Instructions on Students’ Performances in Basic General Mathematics in Colleges of Education in Kano State, Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 8(9)
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