Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 13, Issue 1, Article 14 (Jun., 2012) Emmanuel Ikechuku ABAMBA Content coverage and students’ achievements in secondary school physics: The Delta state example of Nigeria Previous Contents Next

Research Design

The design of the study is a descriptive survey. The population of the study consists of 7852 senior secondary (SS) II physics students that undertook the Ministry of Education promotion examinations 2004/2005 section and their physics teachers in Delta North senatorial district of Delta State, Nigeria. The actual sample of this study consists of 10 physics teachers and 482 SSII physics students from 10 selected schools. Ten secondary schools were randomly selected and the sampling techniques employed for selecting the schools was the simple ballot.