Abstract
The study investigated how the new four year Bachelor of Education degree students performed in their first ever quizzes organised by the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The student teachers were quizzed on some concepts in General Biology (EBS 103), a general course for all the forty-six (46) Colleges of Education in Ghana except students offering General Science as elective subject in the Colleges. The study involved the whole level hundred (L100) students of Abetifi Presbyterian College of Education who were selected through purposive and convenience sampling technique, totalling 435 students (195 female and 240 male). The test items used for the quizzes (Quiz 1 and 2) were constructed by Senior Lecturers of UCC with it reliability of 0.7 and its content and construct validity determined. Data was collected from the scores in both quizzes and were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. An independent sample t-test conducted showed that there was a significant difference between the performance of the male student teachers and the female student teachers in both quizzes ( p = 0.000, p>0.05). The findings further revealed that there was a higher mean score in the quiz one compared to quiz 2; however, the mean difference was statistically insignificant (P=0.623, p>0.05).
Highlights
Education is intended to make one well balanced with requisite knowledge, skills, values, aptitude and attitude to become functional and productive citizens for the total development and the democratic advancement of one’s nation and other related matters
One of the educational sub-sectors that has seen most reforms due to it pivotal role it plays in facilitating quality education in general, is teacher education
The Study sought to determine: 1) the performance level of student teachers in General Biology Quiz one and Quiz two. 2) whether there is a significant difference between the performance level of student teacher in Quiz one and Quiz two in General Biology
Summary
Education is intended to make one well balanced with requisite knowledge, skills, values, aptitude and attitude to become functional and productive citizens for the total development and the democratic advancement of one’s nation and other related matters. Over the past forty years, teacher education in Ghana has undergone a number of modifications. These modifications are a result of policy changes which are aimed at achieving the aforementioned attributes of education by the parliament of the Republic of Ghana. According to [2], the changes have resulted in the production of different cohort of teachers with different certificates. Teacher education is to train professionally competent teachers for a rapidly changing world, by equipping them with critical thinking abilities, pedagogic skills and respect for core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and compassion
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