How the participation in STME clinic encourage female students to continue the study of Science, Technology and Mathematics in higher institutions.

Abstract

The study assessed how the participation in Science Technology and Mathematics Education (STME) clinic encourage female students to continue the study of science, technology and mathematics in higher institution. The research design used was the descriptive survey. Convenient sampling method was used in selecting the participants for the study. A total of 157 female students from Senior Secondary Schools in (12) twelve districts in the Central Region participated in the study.

The study revealed that there was no statistically significant improvement in the performance of females in mathematics as well as in science. However, the study indicated a remarkable change in the females’ attitude towards the study of the subjects.

In addition, the study shown that participation in the STME clinic goes a long way to motivate the participants to continue the study of science technology and mathematics in higher institutions and edges them to take a science oriented careers.

It is recommended, among others, that the clinic coordinators should give much attention to activities that will help improve test results in science and mathematics. It is also recommended that Junior Secondary School girls who participate in Form one should be made to attend each year till they get to the third year of the senior secondary school.

Keywords: Technology, clinic, participation, career guidance.