Science Process Skills Advance Organizer and Students' Motivation Orientation in Secondary School Physics
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https://doi.org/10.58216/kjri.v6i1.127Keywords:
Physics, Science Process Skills advance organizer, MotivationAbstract
This study was designed to investigate students’ motivation orientation in the learning of electric current circuits in secondary school physics after exposure of Science Process Skills advance organizer. The study adopted the posttest only design. Students were exposed to various electric current circuits making activities using electric current components before a physics lesson which was conventionally taught before being post tested. A students’ motivation questionnaire was then administered thereafter. A total of seventy two (72) form two secondary school physics students participated in the study. Data were collected using a six item students’ motivation questionnaire (SMQ) with a reliability of 0.799. Principal Component Analysis was used to reduce student’s responses of each of the six items to manageable variables for easy interpretation of students’ motivation orientation in the learning of electric current circuits in physics. The results of the study indicated that students’ exposure to the science process skills advance organizer made them develop confidence in the physics course, they were excited by the activities that had taken place before the physics lessons especially the experiments they engaged in themselves. The results also indicated students were stimulated when they made conclusions of the experiments exposed to them before the lesson and they were happy when they worked through experiments in groups. This study concludes that science process skills advanced organizer can be used to motivate students in the learning of Physics. The study recommends that teachers of Physics be encouraged to construct relevant science process skills advance organizers for other topics of Physics taught at secondary schools. The study also recommends that publishers and physics education experts publish current research on science process skills advance organizers that can be applied in other subjects.
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