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4C?S AS PREDICTORS OF STUDENT LEARNING ATTITUDE IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OBIO/AKPOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

Maureen Sarima Chuku

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Abstract This study investigated the relative and joint contributions of Critical Thinking, Creative Skill, Communication and Collaboration (4Cs) as predictors of student learning attitude in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area (OBALGA) of Rivers State, Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A sample of 500 senior secondary students was drawn from the population through simple random sampling technique. The five instruments used for data collection were: Mathematics Attitude Inventory (MAIs), Critical Thinking Inventory (CTI), Student Creativity Inventory (SCI), Effective Communication Inventory (SCI) and Student Collaboration Questionnaire (SCQ). The Cronbach alpha technique for internal consistency of the instruments were used to determine the reliability coefficients of MALs CTI,SCI, ECI and SCQ which yielded, r = 0.85, 0.74, 0.80, 0.82 and 0.76 respectively. Multiple Linear regression analysis was used to answer the research question and ANOVAto test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The findings revealed that communication was the strongest predictor of student attitude among Senior Secondary students in OBALGA when compared with collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. The study also revealed that there was a significant joint contribution of the 4Cs to students? attitude towards mathematics. It was therefore recommended that adequate strategies should be put in place for the implementation of 4Cs to increase students? attitude towards mathematics. Key words: Critical Thinking,Creativity, Communication, Collaboration and Attitude

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