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ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to determine the Effect of Simulation Games on Senior Secondary Students Achievement and Retention in Chemistry. The target population was all SS2 students in Onitsha North Local Government. Six schools were sampled using the stratified random sampling techniques, two co-educational, two male and two female schools was selected. One intact SS2 class from each of the six schools was selected, thus, yielding six classes. The sample comprises of 224 SS2 chemistry students, seventy five (75) students from male and female school was used as experimental group and 149 from co-educational was used as control group. A pre-test and post-test quasi experimental control design was used. The hypotheses were tested at P≤ 0.05 level of significance. The instrument used to collect data is chemistry achievement test (CAT) which was validated by a lecturer in chemistry and another in measurement and evaluation. Data collected was analyzed using mean. Standard deviation was used to analyze research question and hypothesis were analyzed using z-test. It was recommended among others that simulation game strategy should be encouraged for the teaching and learning of chemistry at the secondary school level. Professional association and educational researchers should organize seminars to sensitize the need for adaptation of simulation game strategy at the secondary school level. Based on the findings, suggestions for further studies were made.
TABLE OF CONTENT
TITTLE PAGE II
APPROVAL PAGE III
CERTIFICATION PAGE IV
DEDICATION V
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS VII
LIST OF TABLES VIII
ABSTRACT IX
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1
Back ground of the study 1
Statement of the problem 8
Purpose of the study 9
Significance of the study 9
Scope of the study 11
Research questions 11
Research hypotheses 11
CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF LITERATURE 12
Conceptual framework 12
Theoretical framework 19
Empirical framework 24
Summary of literature review 27
CHAPTER THREE 30
Research design 30
Area of the study 31
Population of the study 31
Sample and sampling technique 31
Instrument for data collection 32
Validation of the instrument 32
Reliability of the instrument 33
Method of data collection 33
Method of data analysis 33
CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS:
DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF RESULTS 34
Research question 1 34
Research question 2 35
Research question 3 35
Research question 4 36
Summary of the result 38
CHAPTER FIVE: 40
DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Discussion of findings 40
Conclusion 41
Educational implications 41
Recommendation 42
Limitation 43
Suggestion for further studies 43
Summary of the study 45
REFERENCES 47
APPENDIX I 48
APPENDIX II 48
APENDIX III 52
APENDIX IV 55
APENDIX V 58
APPENDIX VI 62
APPENDIX VII 63
APPENDIX VIII 64
APPENDIX IX 65
APPENDIX X 66
APPENDIX XI 67
APPENDIX XII 68
APPENDIX XIII 70-78