The Relationship Between Students’ Achievement in Junior Secondary Physical and Health Education and Senior Secondary Physical Education

Lawrence Achimugu

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The Relationship Between Students’ Achievement in Junior Secondary Physical and Health Education and Senior Secondary Physical Education

Lawrence Achimugu

Published in Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (Volume 2, Issue 4)

Received: 2 June 2017 Accepted: 23 June 2017 Published: 31 July 2017

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Abstract

This study examines the extent to which scores obtained by students at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Physical and health education (PHE) conducted by Kogi State ministry of education predict the scores obtained by the same students at the senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Physical education (PE) conducted by National Examination Council (NECO) in Lokoja metropolis, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post - facto research design. One research question as well as one hypothesis guided the study. The sample size was 450 students who participated in 2013 BECE and 2016 SSCE from five senior secondary schools selected by simple random sampling technique from the total population of 32 senior secondary schools in Lokoja metropolis. The instrument used for data collection was proformatitled students’ achievement records in BECE and SSCE (SARBS). The data was analysed using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient to answer research question and t – test of significant of relationship to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between scores obtained by students in physical and health education at the BECE and scores obtained by the same students in physical education at the SSCE. It was recommended among others that more physical education topics should be included in PHE curriculum and PHE teachers should be given adequate training.

Published in	Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.tecs.20170204.12
Page(s)	47-51
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Relationship, Students’ Achievement, Physical and Health Education, Physical Education, Basic Education Certificate Examination, Senior Secondary Certificate Examination

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Lawrence Achimugu

Department of Science Education, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria

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