Course Contents Analysis of Students’ Academic Performance in Basic Electronics

Abstract

Year 1 physics students in a College of Education (Technical) were sampled to analyze students’ performance based on course content in basic electronics. End of semester examination marked scripts containing sixty multiple choice questions were used as a research instrument; frequency counts and percentage was used to analyze the data. Findings revealed that students’ overall performance was not good; students’ areas of weakness were fluorescent tube, vacuum tube amplifier, diode, energy band, p-n junction and transistor. However students’ performances were better in discharge tube, cathode ray, CRO, integrated circuit and resistor colour code. Some recommendations were suggested based on the finding of the study; one of such recommendations was that physics teachers should pay more attention to students’ areas of weakness.