Nigerian students’ self-confidence in responding to statements of chemical equilibrium concepts and principles

Abstract

The goal of the study was to find out the self-confidence and confidence level of senior secondary schools in responding to statements associated with the concepts and principles of chemical equilibrium. Four hundred and fifty year 3 chemistry Senior Secondary Students indicated interest to participate in the study. The main data collecting instrument was the Chemical Equilibrium Test (CET). This test contained statements that required students to indicate how sure or not they were about the correctness of the statements. Overall results of the study revealed that except for students’ ability to determine reaction rate from equilibrium systems, about three students in every one hundred students (3:100) had self-confidence in responding to correct statements of the equilibrium system. Students’ level of confidence interval ranged from 0.26 to 0.30. This narrow gap translates to doubt that students have self-confidence in responding to statements of equilibrium system.