TITLE:
Students’ Common Difficulties in Manipulating Microscope Selected Schools in Kano State, Nigeria
AUTHORS:
Adams Azubuike, Amarachi Salome Azubuike
KEYWORDS:
Compound Microscope, Electron Microscope, Respondents, Sampling Techniques
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.13,
July
14,
2014
ABSTRACT: This work was conducted to find out the students’ common
difficulties in manipulating microscope. Questionnaires were used for relevant
and required data collections. The data collected were processed and analyzed
using simple percentage. The findings were discussed and recommendations were
provided for the benefit of research students and teachers. The objectives of
this work are to reveal some common difficulties on manipulating microscope,
their causes and finally suggest solutions to check these difficulties or to
overcome them. This work was carried out with 50 students in level 100 from
biology department. Tables 4-11 show the summary of the responses of these
students on the questions asked about microscope while Tables
1-3 summarize the personal data of these students.