Abstract

The study employed a descriptive survey to investigate senior secondary school students’ assessment of innovative teaching strategies in enhancing achievement in physics and mathematics. By the use of purposive sampling 190 out of a population of 394 senior secondary school year one physics and mathematics students from two co-educational senior secondary schools in Umuahia North LGA of Umuahia Education Zone of Abia State was used. The instrument for data collection was the researchers developed structured questionnaire of the Likert type on senior secondary school students’ assessment of innovative teaching strategies in enhancing achievement in physics and mathematics. Two (2) research questions and one (1) hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The instrument was validated and the reliability index of 0.86 was obtained. The research questions were answered using mean while the hypothesis was tested with chi-square statistics. Results showed that inquiry method, discovery learning, discussion, role play, simulation, games, team teaching, brainstorming and other similar strategies were agreed to be innovative teaching strategies that can enhance achievement in physics and mathematics. A recommendation that physics and mathematics teachers should be encouraged to use these innovative teaching strategies in the teaching of physics and mathematics was made. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n8p121

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