MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENT AND CONTENT COVERAGE IN JUNIOR SECONARY SCHOOLS IN ABA EDUCATION ZONE OF ABIA STATE

Abstract

The study examined Mathematics curriculum objectives achievement and
content coverage in junior secondary school in Aba Education Zone of Abia
State. The study adopted a survey research design. Two research questions and
two hypotheses were formulated for the study. The population comprised all
public junior secondary school Mathematics teachers in Aba education zone of
Abia State. There are 112 Mathematics teachers in junior secondary schools in
Aba Education Zone of Abia State. All 112 Mathematics teachers were sampled.
The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Mathematics
Curriculum Objective Achievement and Content Coverage Questionnaire
(MCOACCQ)” developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated by
three experts in Mathematics Education, Curriculum Studies and Measurement
and Evaluation respectively. The reliability of 0.88 was obtained using cronbach
alpha Method. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research
questions, while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of
significance. The result showed that the objectives of Mathematics curriculum
are achieved at a high extent in urban and rural junior secondary schools in Aba
Education Zone of Abia State. The finding further revealed that both urban and
rural Mathematics teachers cover the contents of Mathematics curriculum to a
high extent. There was no significant difference between the mean rating of
urban and rural Mathematics teachers on the extent of achievement of objectives
and content coverage of Mathematics curriculum in Aba Education Zone of Abia
State. The study recommended among others that mathematics teachers in urban
and rural junior secondary schools should be trained and retrained on the
implementation of innovative Mathematics content