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ABSTRACT This research was designed to investigate the factors militating against the teaching and learning of Science and Technology in Secondary Schools. It is a survey of the Government/Public Secondary Schools in Enugu Education zone. There are three Local Government Areas that make up Enugu Education zone. They are Enugu East Local Government Area, Enugu North Local Government Area and Isiuzo Local Government Area. Out of these Local Governments, a ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY One aim of science teaching is to enhance pupils’ understanding of scientific concepts. Another is to develop children’s capacity to understand scientific procedures and to investigate scientifically. Understanding is a mental state, the product of mental processes which infer relationships between elements of information (Johnson-Laird, 1983, 1987; Halford, 1993). Teachers cannot give learners this mental state but can attempt to support the ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1   BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This century has witnessed the transformation of the human society from the industrial age to information age. The volume of information that circulates in an economy is now a measure of the level of advancement of any economy. Industries enjoy relative advantage over their competitors if they have monopoly of some classes of business information. Nation is stronger than others because they have ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY When we look around we cannot but admire the work of science as the clothes we put on, the house we lives in, the pen use in writhing, the cooker we watch, the steer we play, the pipe borne water, the motor car we drive, the medicine we drink, the are propane that flies, the book we read, the chalk we write with, ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Since the inception of the department of school of sciences, it has been granting admission to a number of students on a yearly basis into various programmes, the department holds one of the larger numbers of students that are admitted yearly into the college of education. This is so because of the premium and the relevance of the useful education, which is provided ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The art of knowing as human activity is more or less synonyms with research and constitute an integrated part of a modern way of life in which research is the daily task by specialized individuals alone or group usually in laboratories. Bearing this in mind, the study will take a critical look at the attitude of girls towards the study of science in ...

  CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1            BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The major challenge facing science educators and researchers in the state is the underachievement in science subjects among the secondary school students. Science is an umbrella covering many subject areas including physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. For stance Sweeny (2003) declared that of particular science education, as suggested by the number of students who successfully pass secondary level science examination. He ...

ABSTRACT This research was designed to examine the girl’s attitude towards science subject in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The research instrument used was the questionnaire was used for the study. Problems were raised and results was obtained from the study were used to answer the research questions. TABLE OF CONTENT CHAPTER ONE          Introduction Background to the study Statement of problem Purpose of the study Limitation of ...