Publisher:
JOTERD
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1:
doi: 1
Published in
2017
Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze started in 1989/90 with the goals of producing skilled and well motivated teachers for the basic level of education. The College has since then been accumulating data on student-teachers' achievement. Nothing however, has been done in terms of studying the pattern of these data for the purpose of deciding how good these goals have been achieved and injecting creativity to the educational process. But the understanding of pattern of students' achievement will provide information about the relationship of the means to the goals. Data from six hundred and forty-five students in four departments of the School of Sciences were used to study the pattern of students' Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA). The results show that the mean CGPA for the 645 students is 2.74; while the CGPA for males and females are 2.72 and 2.74 respectively. The result further showed that gender and choice of accommodation have no effect on achievement. It also revealed that for the five years studied, the CGPA for the different courses differed significantly in their variability within the courses and also, that Mathematics and Biology differed significantly in their mean CGPA. The study further showed that Biology had the least mean CGPA. A one sample t-test showed that this overall mean CGPA differed significantly from the criterion CGPA of 3.00. Although, one-sample the CGPA achievement pattern showed a negatively skewed curve; however, it equally showed a negative kurtosis indicating Platykurtic curve: The results indicated that the pattern of the CGPA differed significantly from normality, and presented problem of individual differences within students' CGPA. It is suggested that an experimental and survey research be conducted in the school for possible causes outside gender and accommodation differences.
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