Ernest Onyebuchi Onwukwe

Drama and Analogies Versus Achievements in School Chemistry: Combined Effects of Play-simulations and Teaching with Analogy on Secondary School Student's Achievement in Chemistry Ernest Onyebuchi Onwukwe

This work investigated the effects of combining science drama as a generator of analogies in explaining science concepts in the topic Metals and their Compounds to secondary school students. Being backed by notable learning theories and the Semiotic Theory of the Curvilinear Forms in the African Novel, the author explored relevant literature and advanced Arts-In-Science Technique as a common term for all efforts to communicate science through art forms. The study being an experimental design, revealed that Play-Simulations and Teaching With Analogy[P-STWA] technique of presenting school science significantly enhanced achievements at the cognitive ability levels investigated. The technique enhanced males and females in all school types equally at recall and comprehension. It however enhanced the boys better the the girls at the application level: This is rather explained as a result of male stereo-typing in African societies. One beauty of this book is the inclusion of the full script of the science drama, COURTROOM OF CRAZY ELEMENTS and Model Lesson Plans by the same author upon which the study was based.