Abstract:
The study investigated the comparative effect of guided discovery and self-learning teaching strategies on senior secondary student's achievement in physics in makurdi local government area of Benue state, Nigeria. Four objectives were set for the study which are to determine the difference in mean achievement scores of students taught physics using guided discovery approach and those taught using self-learning method, determine the relationship between the mean achievement scores of students taught physics using guided discovery and those taught using self learning method, determine the effect of the mean achievement scores of student taught physics using guided discovery and those taught using self learning method and determine the difference in mean achievement scores of male and female student taught physics using guided discovery and those taught using self learning method. A total of 340 students were used for experimentation Physics Achievement Test (PAT)). The purposive sampling techniques was used with the sample size of 340. Data was analyze using descriptive statistics of means and standard deviation. The results showed that that there is a significant main effect of treatment on students' achievement in Physics in guided discovery strategy experimental group and self learning strategy but no significant effect in conventional strategy which serves as control group in Makurdi LGA and there is a significant main effect of cognitive style on students' achievement in Physics in guided discovery, self learning and conventional strategies respectively in Makurdi LGA. Based on the finding of the study, the study concluded that; there is a significant difference in students' achievement in Physics between students taught using the guided discovery teaching method and those taught using the self learning method, those taught with guided discovery teaching method performed better than those taught with self learning method, there is no difference in students' achievement in Physics between male and female students taught with the guided discovery teaching method, there is a difference in students' achievement in Physics between students in Female schools and students in Male schools taught with guided discovery teaching method and Students in the Male areas performed better than students in Female areas in terms of students' achievement in Physics in self learning method.
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