CHEMISTRY TEACHERS PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN JOS NORTH, PLATEAU STATE

ABSTRACT This study was designed to find out the pedagogical content knowledge of chemistry teachers and their teaching effectiveness of public and private secondary schools in Jos North plateau state. the instrument used for data collection was 36 – item questionnaire administered to a sample of one hundred and thirty (130) respondents made up of one hundred and twenty (120) students, five (5) chemistry teachers and five (5) principals, taken from ten (10) secondary schools’ sample, the stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting the sample. descriptive statistics name: mean, standard deviation and Pearson coefficient of determination were used to answer the research questions. the hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics such as t-test and Pearson r. the findings obtained for lesson observations revealed that chemistry teachers in Jos North demonstrate adequate content and pedagogical knowledge. the hypotheses tested in this regard showed that there was a significant relation between content knowledge of the teachers and their teaching effectiveness in Jos North. there was a significant relationship between pedagogical knowledge of the teacher and their teaching effectiveness in Jos North. in addition, the findings revealed that for Jos north, there was a significant difference between the perception of male and female chemistry students regarding their teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the subject