Authors: Odiba Celina Ojoma (Ph.D)
Journal Article | Publish Date: 01/June/2024
This study Assessed Gender Difference in Academic Performance of N.C.E Integrated Science Graduates in F.C.E Zaria. For this study, an ex-post facto design was used. This study was limited to the graduates of Integrated Science (both single and double major) from the School of Secondary Education Sciences, Federal College of Education Zaria. The target population for this study consisted of all male and female graduates of Integrated Science from 2022/2023 session with a total record of 967. CGPA records of 192 double major graduates of Integrated Science (66 males and 126 females) were obtained from the departmental examination officer were used as the sample size. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer research question and inferential statistics of paired sampled t-test for the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The finding reveals a significant difference between the male and female N.C.E. Integrated Science graduates in favour of the female. In conclusion, it was found that the female performed better than male N.C.E. Integrated Science graduates. It was recommended that the government should provide instructional materials that could be used to stimulate students’ interest towards learning integrated science and students should have a workable schedule for household chores and duties so as not to interfere with their study period at home. They should equally allot more time to study courses they found difficult to understand or abstract to them.
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