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Title: EFFECTS OF LEARNING STYLES ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC SCIENCE IN RIVERS STATE NIGERIA.pdf Author: WAGBARA O. SAMUEL Abstract: Students high academic achievement in Basic Science depends on good techniques and effective method of teaching the subject. As a science subject, good grasp of the content by the students becomes paramount. Hence, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of learning styles on students academic achievement in Basic Science. The study was carried out in Rivers State central educational zone, Nigeria. The zone is made up of 9 local Government Areas. The multi stage sampling techniques was carried out in three stages, namely; zonal level, local government level and school level. Simple random sampling by balloting was used to obtain a sample of 94 (JSS 2) students of two schools that participates in the study. The instruments used for data collection were Basic Learning Styles Inventory (BLSI) and Basic Science Achievement Test (BSAT). The data collected were analyzed by using mean and standard deviation to answer all the research questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test all the hypothesis at .05 level of significance. The study found out that learning styles had no significant effect on students mean achievement scores in Basic Science, P > .05. The View |