Students' Attitude and Interest as Correlates of Students' Academic Performance in Physics in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria"

Abstract

The study examined the relationship in the students’ attitude to Physics and students’ interest and academic performance of student in Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria. Subject for the study were one hundred and twenty  (120) SS II Physics students  randomly drawn from six  secondary schools in Ado  Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The research design adopted was a descriptive survey research which was questionnaire based and past terminal continuous assessment results of the students involved in the study. The instruments used to collect relevant data from the subjects were Physics Attitudinal Scale (PAS), Physics Interest Scale (PIS) and terminal continuous assessment results. The instruments were subjected to validity and reliability mechanism. Pearson Product Moment correlation(r) statistical analysis was used to analysed the two null hypotheses formulated for the study. The findings showed that there is significant relationship in the student attitude to Physics and student academic performance in Physic, and the findings also revealed that there if significant relationship in the student interest to Physics and student academic performance in Physics. Conclusion and recommendations were also made in this paper.