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ABSTRACT
The study investigated the effect of lecture and demonstration methods on teaching and learning of physics in secondary schools using some selected senior secondary schools in Ovia North East local government, Edo State. Four research questions guided the study. The study employed the use of survey research design. The population using purposive sampling technique for the study was 100 senior secondary one (SS1) students in four (4) secondary schools.
The instrument for data collection was a 20-item research question. Effective class demonstrations that capture the attention of students and make them make them understand better physics lecture and important component of any physics course. There is evidence to suggest that most teachers love to watch a good demonstration, but they rarely do demonstrations in their own classes. The problem seems to be that setting up demonstrations for classes is too much effort. Moreover, an inexperienced physics instructor unfamiliar with equipment can find this part of physics teaching the most difficult to develop.
The result of study revealed that demonstration method had significant effect on teaching and learning of physics in student than those taught with the conventional lecture method. Data was analyzed using percentage. Useful recommendations such as: efforts should be made by teachers to thoroughly integrating demonstration method in the teaching of physics in secondary schools; efforts should be intensified by teachers to aggressively adopt demonstration method in teaching physics in all classes at the secondary school level were proffered. The findings showed that students responded positively to learning physics with demonstration experiments. Students appeared to be attracted increasingly by physics demonstrations. Class discussions became more and more profound, enthusiastic, and exciting. This instructional design gave students opportunities to comprehend scientific knowledge as well as technological applications.
