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EVALUATING THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE LABORATORY AND PRACTICAL PEDAGOGY ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE USING NEURAL NETWORK
Abstract
Inadequate practical pedagogy endowed lecturers and lack of timely relevant and standard scientific equipment in our integrated science laboratory has created a vacuum in the quality of the expected potential science teachers and the product from Nigerian colleges of education that dominate our secondary schools today. This research evaluates the influence of the availability of integrated science laboratory and practical pedagogy on the learning outcomes of the colleges of education students. Random sampling technique was used for the selection of 1100 students and 76 lecturers from public Colleges of Education in Southwest Nigeria. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models were used to analyze data obtained through questionnaires used as research instrument. Results from the test of null hypotheses stated confirmed that science laboratory and practical pedagogy have strong influence on the academic performance of colleges of education students. This is reflected in the highly positive correlation coefficient of the neural network (0.984) obtained from the simulated results.
Keywords: Colleges of Education, Integrated Science Laboratory, Neural Network models, Practical Pedagogy, Secondary Schools, Nigeria