Students’ performance in chemistry depends on many factors and stands out to show how well a student is doing. Festus (2007), contend that performance appears generally to be the
fundamental goal behind every life struggle, but the positive platform has consequential effects
of improving the worth of the student and can only be achieved through acquisition of positive
learning attitudes. The attitudes of a student trigger his behavior. Attitudes are antecedents
which serve as inputs or stimuli that trigger actions.
Attitudes can distort the perception of information and affect the degree of their retention.
Slee (1964) affirmed by saying that students’ attitudes and interest could play substantial role
among pupils studying science. However, Rosemund (2006), opined that attitude implies a
favorable or disfavourable evaluative reactions towards something, events, programmes, etc
exhibited in an individual’s beliefs, feelings, emotions or intended behaviors. Wilson (1983) and
Soyibo (1985), in their studies reported that students’ positive attitudes to science correlate
highly with their science achievement. Abimbade (1983) maintained that students exposed to
programmed instruction recorded higher and more favorable attitude toward mathematics.
Similar reports were recorded by Anyelaagbe (1998), Udousoro (2000) and Popoola (2002), that
students show more positive attitudes after been exposed to self learning strategy, such as
computer and text assisted programmed instruction, self learning device and self instructed
problem based.