Testing the potency of ethnoscience instruction on biology students’ critical thinking ability

Umar A. Adam, Franklin U. Onowugbeda, Nur Islami and Kehinde G. Ogolo

The Journal of Educational Research, 2024, vol. 117, issue 4, 218-227

Abstract: The study investigated the potency of ethnoscience instruction on the critical thinking ability of biology students. The study employed a quasi-experimental research design, with a total of 113 senior secondary school two (the equivalent of grade 11) students from two schools in educational district V of Lagos State, Nigeria. All students in the two sample schools used for the experimental and control groups took a pretest before treatment, a posttest at the end of the treatment phase. Test of Critical Thinking in Photosynthesis (TCTP) with a reliability of 0.76 was used for data collection. The ANCOVA output demonstrated a statistically significant difference in favor of the experimental group (F (1, 110) = 14.79; p

Date: 2024
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