The purpose of this study is to find and synthesize existing Agricultural Education (AE) researches of Nigeria authors extraction that used experimental or quasi experimental designed and were published within period 2011-2021. A mixed approach research synthesis design was adopted. Five research questions were raised and answered. Thirty AE research articles met the selection criteria. The selected studies were synthesized based on research focus, recommendation, result, sample size and duration of treatment. Thirteen of the selected studies experimented on academic performance of students, out of which five shared themes with either of, method of active learning or technology. Five common themes in research recommendations were discovered by coding the recommendations of each publication, four of the selected studies recommend that government and school administrators should ensure adequate provision of technological devices in schools to make the use of technology effective in teaching. It was concluded that majority of the studies examined used a shorter treatment duration and that AE researches of Nigerian extraction were low. The impact of technology, academic achievement, and active learning approaches were trends in the synthesized studies. Professionals should be recruited and retrained to keep up with agricultural developmental trends, teachers should use video technology to enhance teaching and learning, and curriculum should be adjusted to include new innovative technique were among recommendations made.
This study examined the comparative effects of demonstration and brainstorming methods on students’ performance in agricultural science in Zamfara State, Nigeria. Pre-test post-test quasi experimental design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 12770 SSII agricultural science students during 2017/2018 academic session in Zamfara State. A sample of 80 students (40 males and 40 females) was used as an intact class. Data was collected using a multiple-choice test consisting of 30-items developed by the researchers. Data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics in form of mean and standard deviation while the null hypotheses were tested using t-test analysis. The study results indicated that, there is no significant difference in the academic performance of male and female agricultural science students using demonstration method. But male students performed significantly better than their female counterparts in brainstorming method. Yet, both groups of the students significantly did better in demonstration method than in brainstorming method. The study recommends among others that, agricultural science teachers should always make use of demonstration in teaching agricultural science while governments through ministries of education should provide schools with necessary facilities needed for effective demonstration.
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