Course Contents Analysis of Students’ Academic Performance in Basic Electronics
Keywords:
Performance, Enrolment, Physics, ElectronicsAbstract
Year 1 Physics students in a College of Education (Technical)
were sampled to analyze students’ performance based on course content
in basic electronics. End of semester examination marked scripts
containing sixty multiple choice questions were used as a research
instrument; frequency counts and percentage was used to analyze the
data. Findings revealed that students’ overall performance was not
good; students’ areas of weakness were fluorescent tube, vacuum tube
amplifier, diode, energy band, p-n junction and transistor. However
students’ performances were better in discharge tube, cathode ray, CRO,
integrated circuit and resistor colour code. The paper concluded that
students’ performance in basic electronic was determined by the course
content and that students have difficulty in learning some aspects of
basic electronics. Some recommendations were suggested based on the
finding of the study; one of such recommendations was that Physics
teachers should pay more attention to students’ areas of weakness.
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