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Investigating Teachers’ Beleifs about Students in Learning Biology: The Role of Teachers in Individual Learning Differences

Olalekan Adeyinka

This paper attempts to investigate teachers’ beliefs about students in learning Biology: The role of teachers in individual learning differences, the paper includes research objectives such as finding out the beliefs biology teachers hold about students, discovering how biology teachers' beliefs influences students' academic performance in biology, finding out the individual learning differences biology students possesses. The paper reviewed several previous works from scholars on different concepts revolving around the research study including; the teachers’ beliefs, and individual learning differences. The sample for this study is made up of 50 teachers that would be given questionnaires to answer to find out their beliefs on students learning biology, and 50 students learning Biology to determine the correlation between the teachers’ beliefs and students. The 100 respondents would be partitioned. The study has to do with inferential statistics. Inferential statistics is aimed at summarizing the properties of a population from the known properties of the sample of the population. Simple frequency, mean scores, and the percentage would be used for analysing the data because they will explain the phenomena under study.