EFFECT OF INTERACTIVE LECTURE METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS CHEMISTRY IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KOGI STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of interactive lecture method on students’ attitude towards chemistry in senior secondary school in Kogi State. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 200 SS1 students were drawn from a population of 11,091 using multi-stage sampling technique as sample for the study. The instrument used for data collection was Chemistry Attitude Scale (CAS, r=0.72). Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that: there is significant difference between the attitude of students exposed to interactive lecture method and those exposed to conventional lecture method. There is also a significant difference between the attitude of male and female students exposed to the interactive lecture and conventional lecture methods. The study further revealed that there is no significant interaction effect of tratment and gender. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that chemistry teachers should adopt use of interactive lecture teaching method to teach chemistry in order to improve students’ attitude in chemistry since interactive lecture has proven to be effective. Furthermore, Chemistry teachers who have not adopted the use of any innovative teaching method such as guided discovery recommended by national chemistry curriculum are also encouraged to use interactive lecture method since it has been proven that it is better than conventional lecture method.