Effects of Brainstorming and Field Trip Teaching Methods on Senior Secondary School Physics Students’ Achievement in Bwari Area Council, Abuja

Abstract

The study investigates the effect of brainstorming and field trip teaching methods on senior secondary school physics students’ achievement in the Bwari Area Council, Abuja. This study adopted a quasiexperimental pre-test and post-test control group design. The population of this study comprises all SS2 students in public secondary schools in the Bwari Area Council, Abuja. A simple random sampling technique was used to select three classes of senior secondary physics students studying in six schools. The classes selected were randomly distributed to treatment and control groups (comprising 226 students), respectively. However, the purposive sampling technique will be used to select three SS2 physics teachers in each of the schools selected to serve as research assistants. The researcher developed an instrument tagged the Physics Achievement Test (PAT). Two research questions with two corresponding hypotheses were formulated to facilitate the study. The data collected for the study were classified into pre-test and post-test scores for both experimental and control groups. Descriptive statistics were used to get the group mean scores and standard deviation of students' performance in the Physics Achievement Test (PAT). The null hypotheses were tested using ANCOVA at the alpha 0.05 level of significance. The study showed that brainstorming and field trip teaching methods have a highly significant effect on senior secondary school physics students’ achievement.