Team Teaching as a Panacea to Students’ Low Academic Achievement in Chemistry in Rivers State, Nigeria

Samuel O.  Wagbara; Ikwut, Emmanuel  Friday

Samuel O. Wagbara Department of Integrated Science Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Ikwut, Emmanuel Friday Department of Science Education Faculty of Education Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Keywords: Nigeria, Chemistry, Low

Abstract

Collaboration is a useful process of creativity. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to investigate team teaching as a panacea to students’ low academic achievement in Chemistry. Quasi experimental research design was adopted for the study and purposive sampling techniques was used to select Emohua Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling by balloting was carried out in two rounds to select two schools and a sample size of (100) SS2 Chemistry students that participated in the study. Chemistry Achievement Test (CAT) was used to collect data for the study. The data collected was analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer all the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The study found that, there was significant difference between the mean score of students exposed to team teaching and those exposed to lecture method in favour of those exposed to team teaching in Chemistry. Gender had no significant effect on mean scores of students exposed to both lecture method and team teaching method in Chemistry. This study recommends the use of team teaching method for Chemistry teachers and equal opportunities for students irrespective of gender.

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