Effectiveness of Study Skills Training on Motivation and Academic Performance in Mathematics among Secondary School Students in Katsina State, Nigeria
*1Jimoh Mukhtar, 2Umar Mamman & 3Bagudu Alhaji Adamu
*1,2,&3Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria. Email: mukhtarjimoh2018@gmail.com*1
Abstract
This study investigated the Effect of Study skills Training on Motivation and Academic Performance in Mathematics among Secondary School Students in Katsina state, Nigeria. Two objectives with corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. Quasi-experimental design pre-test, post-test and control group was adopted for the study. The population consists of 17,257 students; the sample size of this study consists of 115 SSS II Science intact-class Students which were drawn from two public co-educational schools in Katsina Zonal Education Quality Assurance in Katsina State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted for the study; purposive sampling technique was used to select two schools for the study. The study consists of experimental group and control group. The instruments are Students’ Mathematics Motivation Questionnaire (SMMQ) and Mathematics Academic Performance Test (MAPT). The reliability co-efficient of SMQ and MAPT are 0.75 and 0.78 respectively. ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. The finding revealed that there is significant difference between students taught Mathematics using study skills training and those taught using conventional strategies on Motivation in Mathematics and the finding revealed that there is significant difference between students taught using study skills training and those taught using conventional strategies on academic performance in Mathematics. The study concluded that study skills training are more effective than conventional method of teaching in improving students’ motivation, enhancing students’ academic performance when teaching the difficult concept of Mathematics.
Keywords
Academic Performance, Students’ Motivation, Study Skills Training, Secondary School Students
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