ABSTRACT

This study examined the relationship between perceived use of resources and achievement in oxidation-reduction reaction, percentage perception of students’ use of resources, and the contribution of sex, type of school, and level of perceived use of resources to students’ achievement in oxidation-reduction reactions in Urban areas of Ovia-North East LGA, Edo state. Based on this, six research questions were raised and three were hypothesized and tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance.

A survey research design incorporating ex-post facto was adopted as research design forthe study. The population for this study consists of four hundred and seventy-nine (479)senior secondary II chemistry students in public and private secondary schools in urban areas of Ovia NorthEast LGA, Edo state. A sample of two hundred and seventy-seven

(277) chemistry students were selected for the study through purposive random sampling techniques. An instrument titled Perceived use resource inventory and achievement test was used to collect data from the students in the study. The instrument was face and content validated by the researcher’s supervisor, a lecturer in Chemistry Department and a chemistry teacher. The questionnaire had a reliability coefficient of 0.830 using Cronbach Alpha Statistics while the achievement test had a reliability coefficient of 0.731 using Kuder Richardson (KR-20), hence the instrument was deemed reliable. The instrument was administered by the researcher with the assistance of the chemistry teacher and retrievedfrom the students immediately they were completed. The data collected from the students were analyzed using, percentage, Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression.