Effects of Teachers’ Utilisation of Tiered Home Assignment on Students’ Achievements in Mathematics
Keywords:
tiered mathematics home assignment; teachers’ training; mathematics curriculum; gender; school type, Tiered Mathematics Home Assignment (T.M.H.A.), Student Mathematics Achievement Tiered Home Assignment SMATHA, Student Continuous Assessment in Mathematics (SCAM), Teachers' Mathematics Assignment Rating Scale (TMARS), Students' Diagnostic TestAbstract
This research discusses the effect of Tiered Mathematics Home
Assignments (T.M.H.A.) on the academic achievements of junior
secondary school students. Gone are the days when only the students
who could not answer mathematics questions correctly in the classroom
were given assignments to improve their competence in the subject.
Mathematics assignments are now given to every student in order to
minimize the rate of failure. However, not all mathematics teachers can
effectively construct appropriate assignments which can improve the
students’ understanding of the subject. 631 students from 9 junior
secondary schools (JSS) in Lagos took part in this study. The results
revealed significant interaction effects of T.M.H.A. on students’ ability
levels and achievement in mathematics. During this study, we observed
that students who were given relevant home assignments (as per
T.M.H.A.) had improve their competence in the subject by a higher
amount than those who were exposed only to regular assignments. The
results also show that there is a significant effect of gender on students’
mathematics achievement and ability levels. Similarly, the findings
show that there is a significant effect of school type on students’
mathematics achievement and ability levels. In general, male students
tend to perform better than female students and students from private
schools performed slightly better. It was also observed that some
mathematics teachers paid little attention to the purpose, design and
standard of the mathematics homework assigned to the students. Thus,
we recommended that a course on differentiated M.H.A. (Mathematics
Home Assignment) should be included in the teachers’ training
mathematics curriculum and frequent seminars should be organized for
teachers by the school administrators on the effective use of T.M.H.A.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.17.4.6
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