Abstract:
This study analyzed the errors committed by senior secondary school students in physics examination in Sokoto Metropolis. The problem that necessitated the analysis includes the poor performance of students in physics examination despite the importance of the subject to science and technology. Three research questions guided the study and one null hypothesis was tested. Four hundred (400) students comprising of 200 boys and 200 girls were selected from 4 schools offering physics in Sokoto Metropolis. Error Diagnostic Test was the instrument used in collecting data. Simple percentages and chi-square were used for analyzing the data. The result showed that six types of errors were committed by students namely; factual/wrong explanation of concepts, grammatical, spelling, algorithm, wrong result/conclusion and wrong/absence of unit errors and that there was significant difference in the frequency of errors committed by male and female students in physics examination. It was recommended among others that ways of reducing or preventing the reoccurrence of errors such as remediation, corrections should be developed by teachers to improve performance of students. |
