Effects Of Guided Discovery Approach On Students’ Academic Performance In Ecology In Senior Secondary Schools

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1         Background to the Study Education, especially in science has always been seen as the most appropriate and fastest vehicle for the planned transformation of any society (Jegede et al., 1996). Thus, in Nigeria, the contemporary national aims and objectives of education were geared towards the training of individual through child- centered learning for maximum self and societal development and fulfillment. Accordingly, education should aim at helping a child acquire appropriate skills, abilities, and competence - both mental and physical as equipment for the i…