The study determined the effects of interactive-engagement and analogy-enhanced instructional strategies on students’ anxiety in Chemistry in Ekiti State secondary schools. The research design used was quasi-experimental design that employed pre-test, post-test and control group design. The sample for the study consisted of all the 198 SSSII students offering Chemistry in intact classes of the six secondary schools selected for the study. The selection was done through multistage sampling procedure. Chemistry Students’ Anxiety Rating Scale (CSARS) was used for data collection while three Instructional Guides for Teachers using the Instructional Strategies (IGT) were used. The validity of the instrument was ascertained using face and content validity procedures. A field testing was carried out on the instrument using test re-test method to determine the reliability of the instrument and it yielded coefficient of 0.83. The experimental procedure for this study was in three stages, the pre-treatment stage (one week), the treatment stage (six weeks) and the post-treatment stage (one week). Descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentages, mean, standard deviation and bar-charts were used to answer the research question raised. Inferential statistics such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) (using pre-test scores of covariates) were used to test the hypotheses generated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the result revealed that there was significant difference in the anxiety of students exposed to interactive-engagement, analogy-enhanced and the conventional strategies in Chemistry while the anxiety of students exposed to Interactive-Engagement, Analogy-Enhanced and conventional strategies of teaching do not differ by gender and school location. It was recommended among others that there is need for inclusion of interactive-engagement and analogy-enhanced instructional strategies in the secondary school curriculum as alternative teaching strategies that would reduce the anxiety of Chemistry students.

Keywords:  Interactive-Engagement, Analogy-Enhanced, Anxiety, Chemistry,

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