Abstract

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF CLASSROOM ATTENDANCE AND CONCENTRATION AT LECTURE ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF STUDENTS IN ALGEBRA IN FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL), OYO

Fadare, Andrew Ojo

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A nation cannot rise above the level of its education, no doubt. The level of teaching and learning that take place in the four walls of the nation?s educational institution is evident in the academic achievement of students for which the various programmes were designed and approved. For the last two decades, the determinant of students? academic performance had been an ongoing and an open ended research. Now that e-learning is thriving in the global world of technology, empirical studies to ascertain whether or not students? attendance is proportional to their success in Mathematics are few and inconclusive. This study investigates through two surveys of Attendance and Questionnaire, the impact of students? attendance and concentration at lectures in Mathematics class in Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo with the entire 100 level, Mathematics students as the target population and sample. MAT 111 titled ?Algebra? which is central and pivotal to the Mathematics NCE programmes was used for the study through attendance taken at lectures coupled with a Researcher?s structured questionnaire, validated by experts in the field of Mathematics Education to elicit responses from the sample. One main hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 significant level. Findings revealed that students? attendance and concentration in Mathematics classroom are directly and significantly related to their academic achievement in Mathematics (p<0.05, tcal=4.95 > 2.04=ttab). It was recommended among others that the department of Mathematics, Management of Colleges of Education and similar institutions should always highlight the importance of attendance and concentration at lectures to students during orientation or induction for new intakes. Keywords: Students? achievement, classroom attendance, concentration.

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