PERCEPTION AND SATISFACTION IN LESSON STUDY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL PHYSICS STUDENTS BASED ON LEARNING PATTERN IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ABUJA

Abstract

This study investigated the perception and satisfaction in Lesson Study among secondary school physics students based on learning pattern in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Descriptive survey was research design adopted. The researcher used random sampling to select three Area Council out of six Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. From the 1848 target population of students in science and technical colleges in FCT, the researcher used a Simple random sampling technique to sample 3I7 students from the three co-educational science and technical colleges for this study. Two different questionnaires of five- point Likert scale with the reliability coefficient of 0.98 for students learning pattern questionnaire (SLPQ) and 0.82 for perception and satisfaction of physics students on lesson study questionnaire (PSPSLSQ) were administered to the sampled population. And to guide the study, two research questions and two research Hypotheses were raised. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts, Mean, Standard Deviation and ANOVA. The findings from this study revealed that visual, social and logical learning pattern of Physics students have positive perception on lesson study method, there was no significant difference in the response on perception and satisfaction level of students based on visual, social and logical learning pattern. It was recommended among others that Lesson Study should be adopted by FCT school principals and teachers to improve students’ perception and satisfaction. Both the Federal and State governments should implement lesson study in all the secondary school in Nigeria