INFLUENCE OF ATTITUDES AND INTEREST OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ON CHEMISTRY ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN GWALE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KANO STATE

This study investigated Influence of Attitudes and Interest of secondary School students on Chemistry Academic achievement in Gwale Local Government Area of Five objectives, five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated. The study adopted Ex-post Facto research design. The population of the study comprises of all the senior secondary school in Gwale LGA and simple random sampling technique was used. The sample size of the study was 346 students. Two sets of data collection instruments were used namely: Students Questionnaire and students academic achievement record, the Questionnaire was validated by two experts in the departments of science and technology education data collection was done through the administering of questionnaire to students. Mean deviation and t-test were used in the analysis of data. First findings revealed that there is significance influence of attitude of chemistry student on their academic achievement in Gwale local government Area, Kano State because higher attitudes scores leads to higher academic achievement of students in chemistry. There is no significant influence of interest of chemistry student on their academic achievements in Gwale local government Area, Kano State because lower interest scores leads to lower academic achievement.. The study recommended that Student should be motivated to increase their positive attitude of chemistry in Gwale local government Area, Kano State because higher attitudes scores leads to higher academic achievement of students in chemistry.