Challenges of Students in Practical Physics among Students of Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo

The study identify the challenges of physics students in conducting and reporting practical physics in Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo. The research design is a descriptive survey. Two research questions and a null hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. The population of the study is all the NCE I, II and III students in the department of physics Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, there are 31 students (Male=19, Female=12). An intact class of all the 31 students is considered to be the sample of the study since the number is manageable. The instrument used for data collection developed by the researcher is the Reporting and Conducting Practical Physics Students Challenges Questionnaire (RCPPSCQ) with ten (10) items concerning reporting and conducting skills of practical physics. The Questionnaires was rated on four likert-scales of Strongly Agreed (SA)=4, Agreed (A)=3, Disagreed (D)=2 and Strongly Disagreed (SD)=1, a criterion mean of 2.5 is set for decision making where the items with mean values above the criterion mean is considered as not a challenge to the students. The research questions and the hypotheses were tested using the appropriate statistics of mean, standard deviation and Mann-whitney U test for final decision. The findings indicate that Mann-Whitney (U=104, p=0.7>0.05) for male and female challenges in conducting practical physics has no significant difference among them also (U=103, p=0.655>0.05) for male and female challenges in reporting practical physics also indicate there is no significant difference among them.