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AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TEACHING OF ELECTROLYSIS IN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE CHEMISTRY IN ISEYIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

One of the foundational topics in senior secondary school chemistry is electrolysis. It is one of the topics that contribute to students' success in their senior secondary school certificate examination. Its teaching and knowledge acquisition should be excellent to achieve good performance from learners. Hence, this research study sought to investigate how Electrolysis is being taught in the Iseyin Local Government Area, Iseyin. Oyo State, Nigeria. The study was a descriptive research type, and a validated questionnaire was used to obtain data. The questionnaire named “Questionnaire on the teaching of electrolysis in Iseyin local government area of Oyo state” was taken to schools in the said area with a consent form from the Department of Education. After the administration and collation of questionnaires from respondents, the data was subjected to analysis using SPSS 23 to analyse the data. The study revealed that the teaching of Electrolysis in Iseyin is only fair. Out of all the 4 sections of the questionnaire, only about half of the respondents met the requirement for teaching Electrolysis in senior secondary school. This implies that if there are insufficient teachers meeting the requirements for teaching Electrolysis in Iseyin, there will be poor performance. The study therefore recommended, among others, that for the teaching of electrolysis to be successful in Iseyin, both the human and non-human resources must be put in check. For the human resources, academic qualifications and years of teaching experience are key factors. For the non-human resources: instructional methods and materials, practical experiments, and availability of textbooks must be put in check for successful teaching of Electrolysis.

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The study focuses specifically on the approximately 30 secondary schools in Iseyin Local Government Area of Oyo State, Nigeria, where a clear gap exists between student interest in Chemistry and their actual academic performance. Key regional challenges identified include a severe shortage of qualified science teachers, with some educators spread across four schools daily, leaving little time for meaningful student guidance. There is also a critical lack of essential laboratory equipment, such as Hoffman's Voltameters and electrolytic cell apparatus, reducing the teaching of electrolysis to a merely "fair" standard. In response, the study proposes practical, community-grounded solutions: deploying the area's most experienced teachers to lead hands-on workshops, and incorporating locally accessible materials like salt and battery cells to make abstract chemical concepts more tangible for students in the Iseyin community.

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