Correlational Study of Students’ Achievement in Educational Research Methodology and Performance in Project Work in F.C.E Okene, Kogi State

Undergraduates are taught research in education as a course to sensitize the students with the research methods in education. The knowledge obtained is expected to be applied in the undergraduate students’ project report. Thus, this study examined the correlation between the students’ project work scores and their achievement scores in educational research methods and statistics. The study adopted correlational design. The population for the study comprised all the students from 2008 to 2019 academic session of Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State of Nigeria, affiliates of University of Ibadan, Oyo State of Nigeria. Purposively, 560 students from the Guidance and Counselling department were selected for the research, and the data used in the study came from their test results. The research instrument consists of the secondary source of the scores in educational research methodology and scores in the students’ project work. The reliability of the instrument was established using Kuder-Richardson and the index was 0.74. Data collected were analyzed with SPSS using Pearson Moment Correlation analysis and Simple regression analysis. The results indicated low positive (0.167) and direct interaction between the independent and dependent variables; and that students’ achievement in educational research methodology contributed significantly (2.6%) to the students’ performance in project work. Recommendations were also highlighted.