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Volume 59, Issue 325, January 2023

The effects of classroom exercise and home assignment on the academic performance of students in mathematics in Nigerian secondary school

Sunday IA, Ganiyu AA

Department of Mathematics, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

This paper is designed to investigate the effects of classroom exercise and home assignment on the academic performance of students in Mathematics in Nigerian senior secondary schools. Random sampling technique was used for the purpose of the study. Three secondary schools were randomly picked for this study. Data for the study were collected from the selected schools through the use questionnaires, pre-test and post test. One hundred and twenty (120) students consisting both boys and girls were selected at random from each school. The data was analyzed using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation, Analysis of Variance and t-test. Analysis of the result shows that there is significant relationship between class work and home assignment and students' academic performance in Mathematics. Also, students taught using home assignment performed significantly better than students in the other groups who were not exposed to home assignment. This confirms the result of the hypotheses which states that with adequate classroom exercise and home assignment, students will have better performance in Mathematics. Based on the outcome of these findings, it was recommended that actions should be built into policies of Nigeria that teachers should endeavour to give home assignments to their students after classroom work daily and parents and wards should recon with take home assignments by monitoring their children at home in ensuring that they do the assignment given to them by their teachers on daily basis to improve the performance of their children in Mathematics.

Keywords: Mathematics, Home Assignment, Class Work, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation, Analysis of Variance, t-test, Teachers, Parents