ASSESSMENT OF CLASSROOM QUESTIONING BY TEACHERS ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN DELTA STATE

Enwefa Chiekem

Department of Guidance and Counselling

Delta State University, Abraka Delta State Nigeria.

E-mail: chiekemenwefa @gmail.com

Abstract: Education in general assist both the teachers and students to become independents learners and thinkers through the act of questioning in the classroom; The aim of this study was assessment of classroom questioning by teachers on students’ academic achievement in secondary schools in Delta State. Four point scale questionnaire consisting of ten items statement was constructed and administered, to six hundred (600) students from sixty (60) schools in Delta State by means of stratified random sampling techniques from the three senatorial district. Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research question, which t-test statistics was used to test the stated hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The results showed that there was significant difference between urban and rural students assessment of classroom questioning by teachers on academic achievement in Delta State. It was recommended that teachers should use classroom norms to help students understand the role of questioning in the teaching – learning process and teachers should use structured questions to scaffold new students behaviour when responding to questions.