Effect of Meta-Heuristic Strategy on Interest in Settlement Concepts among Secondary School Geography Students in Minna Education Zone, Nigeria

Abdullahi Dokochi Mohammed

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The study determined the Effect of Meta-Heuristic Strategy on Interest in Settlement Concepts among Secondary School Geography Students in Minna Education Zone, Niger State. The study contained three objectives with their corresponding research questions and null hypotheses. The research design employed for the study was Quasi-experimental design, particularly prestest, posttest groups design. The study consists of experimental and control groups. The non-equivalent control groups design involving two groups were used, that is, experimental group and control group. The population of the study comprised of 9000 SSSII students offering Geography as at 2018/2019 academic session in government own senior secondary schools in Minna, Niger State. A sample of two hundred and one (201) students were derived from two co-education and two single schools, that is, one hundred and seven (107) male and ninety-four (94) female students using stratified random sampling procedure. One validated instrument was developed by the researcher named as Settlement Inventory Interest Questionnaire (SIIQ) with reliability coefficient of 0.7 respectively. Research questions raised were answered using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation while null hypotheses formulated were tested using inferential statistics of Mann Whitney (U-test) at conventional threshold value of p  0.05 level of significance. The finding showed that, there was significant difference between the interest ability of students taught settlement concepts using meta-heuristic strategy and those taught using lecture method only at senior secondary schools of the study area. Similarly, the finding portrayed that, there was no significant difference between the interest of male and female students in two different single schools taught settlement concepts using meta-heuristic strategy only at senior secondary school of the study area. The study recommended the need for State Ministry of Education and Science Teacher’s Association of Nigeria (STAN) to encourage teachers on the use of meta-heuristic strategy in teaching Geography at secondary schools level.


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