INVESTIGATION ON THE APPLICATION OF RESEARCH FINDNGS IN CHEMISTRY CLASSROOM

Abstract

This paper investigated the application of research findings in chemistry classroom. The population involved all the chemistry teachers in Ogidi education zone of Anambra State. The sample consists of forty-seven chemistry teachers in all the forty public-owned secondary schools in the zone. The study was guided by two research questions. The instrument used to collect data was a self structured questionnaire which contains items on researched teaching methods for promoting teaching and learning in chemistry education. The instrument was validated and its reliability tested using Cronbach alpha. The reliability gave a coefficient of 0.79. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings revealed that seventeen listed teaching methods, only eight teaching methods were applied in chemistry classroom by the teachers. Reasons for not applying some research teaching methods were listed by the teachers. It was recommended among others that there is need for reduction of science curricular contents for effective use of these researched methods.