Abstract
The study of general and specific behaviourial objectives on students’ achievement prior to instruction in social studies was carried out in order to determine its relative effectiveness in improving the performance of students in both internal and external examinations in Akwa Ibom State schools of Nigeria. Relevant literature was reviewed. A total of 270 junior secondary two students were used for the study. The instrument consisted of thirty multiple choice objective questions and a questionnaire. The research design adopted for the study was pretest-post test control group experimental design. Three Social Studies topics were taught within an eight week duration of the field work. One hypothesis was postulated for the study and tested at 0.05 level of significance using analysis of covariance (ANOVA). The results of the data analysis indicated that students presented with specific behavioural objectives prior to instruction in social studies had a significantly higher academic achievement than those presented with general objectives, who in turn had a significantly higher academic achievement than those presented with no objective. Based on this finding some recommendations were made.
Highlights
The teaching and learning of social studies could be either very simple and easy going or very complex and difficult depending on the ability of the teacher to make effective use of either general or specific behavioural objectives in interacting with the learners
In an attempt to optimize effective teaching and learning, a shift is always being made from the general educational aims to specific objectives which are achieved at the end of a social studies course or series of lessons
Statement of hypothesis There is no significant difference in the academic achievement of students presented with statement of general and specific behavioural objectives prior to instruction in social studies and those not presented
Summary
The teaching and learning of social studies could be either very simple and easy going or very complex and difficult depending on the ability of the teacher to make effective use of either general or specific behavioural objectives in interacting with the learners. Before this period, most teachers in the process of preparing lesson notes write down a brief explanation of the aim of social studies as expressed in terms of content to be learned or skill to be acquired. In an attempt to optimize effective teaching and learning, a shift is always being made from the general educational aims to specific objectives which are achieved at the end of a social studies course or series of lessons
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