EFFECTS OF SIMULATION STRATEGY ON SENIOR SECONDARY TWO BIOLOGY STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN PLATEAU NORTHERN SENATORIAL ZONE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study sought to examine the effects of Simulation Strategy on Senior Secondary school biology Academic Achievement in Plateau Northern Senatorial Zone, Nigeria. Two specific objectives and two research questions were raised and two hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Quasi-experimental research design, specifically the pre-test-post-test non-equivalent control group design was used in the conduct of this study. The population of the study consisted of all the 5130 SS II biology students (comprising 2795 males and 2335 females). The sample size was 74 SS II biology students, which consisted of the experimental group with 44 students (19 males and 25 females), and control group with 30 students (17 males and 13 females). A multistage sampling technique was used to select the sample for the study. The instruments used for the study was, Human Circulatory System Achievement Test (HCSAT) which was developed and validated by the researcher. The research questions raised were answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses formulated were tested using t-test for independent sample. Findings from the study showed that the achievement mean scores of the experimental group was higher than the mean scores of the control group after treatment. This signifies that simulation strategy improves students’ achievement more than the traditional method of teaching biology. The study recommended the need for teachers to used simulation strategy in teaching so as to improve students’ achievement in biology.