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| ISBN | 979-8-88676-290-7 |
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| Author | Danladi Ibrahim Musa, Emmanuel Edoja Achor, Hadiza Alami Musa |
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| Number of pages | 65 |
Assessment of Junior Secondary School Home Economics Curriculum and students’ Cognitive thinking levels
The aim of this study was to determine if achievement in home economics is consistent with learners’ cognitive thinking levels. The study used expost-facto design for data collection. The study population comprised all students from schools offering home economics at the junior secondary school level in Benue State, Nigeria. Instruments for data collection included the […]
ISBN: 979-8-88676-290-7
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The aim of this study was to determine if achievement in home economics is consistent with learners’ cognitive thinking levels. The study used expost-facto design for data collection. The study population comprised all students from schools offering home economics at the junior secondary school level in Benue State, Nigeria. Instruments for data collection included the curriculum analysis taxonomy (CAT), the home economics achievement test (HEAT) and the cognitive reasoning task (CRT). Results indicated that a preponderance of the participants demonstrated concrete reasoning than formal reasoning. There was also a match between students’ cognitive reasoning level and the cognitive demand of the examination questions. Furthermore, the study indicated no relationship between students’ performance on the HEAT and their measure of cognitive thinking (r=0.036; p
