Effect of Democratized Teaching Method on Secondary School Students Academic Achievement in Agricultural Science

Abstract

The study was carried out on the relative effectiveness of discovery (democratic) and lecture teaching methods on enhancing student’s achievement in agricultural science. Four co-educational schools in Orumba South of Anambra State were purposively selected through random sampling. A total of 125 SSI agricultural science students were drawn from these schools. The assignment of intact class to both the discovery method group and lecture method group was done randomly. Quasi-experimental was the design adopted. The agricultural topics were taught by their teachers for a total of four periods of 35 minutes each per group. The experimental were taught with discovery method while the control group were taught using lecture method. A 40 – item agricultural science achievement test developed by the researchers was used to assess the subjects achievement Data Collected were analyzed using percentage, mean and ANOVA. The finding revealed that the experimental group (discovery method) achieved higher than the control group (Lecture). Based on the finding, the researchers recommended that democratic teaching method should be employed in teaching agricultural science. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2013.v2n5p187