Senior secondary students’ performance in selected Aspects of quantitative chemistry

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate students’ performance in chemical calculations involving gas equation, mole concept and chemical equations. 100 Senior Secondary (SS) students from 10 schools in Port Harcourt metropolis participated in the study. Twenty-item objective test was the data collecting instrument. Overall findings of the study showed that students performed poorly in chemical calculation. Inability to make out the goals of test items, not being able to recall information from memory, use of wrong units, difficulties in inter-unit conversions, reasoning deficiencies using information from the stem of test items and from their memory were some of the problems of the students. Implications of these findings for chemical education were discussed. [African Journal of Chemical Education—AJCE 5(1), January 2015]