The Effective Strategies for Reducing Learning Difficulties in Senior Secondary School Chemistry
Abstract
Learning is an act of acquiring knowledge or skill. For learning to be meaningful it has to follow the processes. A situation whereby the brain is struggling to settle with this process, the learner will have a problem and such problem is termed learning difficulty. Learning difficulties to student is one who exhibit problems in acquiring academic skills as a consequence of a range of cases. Causes of learning difficulties include genetic effect, brain development and environment effect. Types of learning difficulties include dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscakulia, dyspraxia, auditory processing disorder and language processing disorder. Chemistry is a natural science associated with substances and their metabolites and applications. Learning of chemistry requires knowledge of signs, symbols, diagrams, vocabulary. Many students are finding it difficult to understand the content of chemistry, hence experiencing learning difficulty. The solution of these learning difficulties includes diagnosis, coping with the challenges, occupational therapy and counseling. With the use of appropriate strategies such as using appropriate languages, resources, ICT, and clear chemistry content the problem of learning difficulties will be reduced in schools. Some recommendations were made.Key words: Strategy, Learning Difficulty, ChemistryCopyright (c) 2020 Nnamdi B. Emendu, Peter I. Ikeowu, Ebele R. Emendu

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Terms and conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License apply to all published manuscripts. This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This licence allows authors to use all articles, data sets, graphics and appendices in data mining applications, search engines, web sites, blogs and other platforms by providing appropriate reference. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright without restrictions and will retain publishing rights without restrictions.
A competing interest exists when professional judgment concerning the validity of research is influenced by a secondary interest, such as financial gain. We require that our authors reveal all possible conflicts of interest in their submitted manuscripts.
The Editor reserves the right to shorten and adjust texts. Significant changes in the text will be agreed with the Authors.