Influence of large class size on students’ academic achievement and attitude towards the learning of geography in Niger State College of Education, Minna

Abstract

The study examined the Influence of Large Class Size on Students Academic Achievement and Attitude towards the Learning of Geography in Niger State College of Education Minna. The study used quasi experimental and survey design. A sample of 200 NCEII students were used. Simple random sampling technique (hat and draw method) was used. Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. Also two research instruments were use for this study. These are Geography Achievement Test (GAT) and Geography Attitude Questionnaire (GAQ). GAQ has a reliability coefficients of 0.75 while GAT has a reliability coefficient of 0.81. Mean, standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Independent t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The study revealed that, students' performance was better in small class size than in large class size. Similarly students also agreed that large class size affect negatively in learning of geography. In the light of this, it was recommended among others that More instructional materials should be provided to include public address system so that the students in a large class could be instructed as appropriate.