CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN ECONOMICS IN OBIO/AKPOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

Abstract

The study centered on Co-operative Learning Strategy and Senior Secondary School Students’ Performance in Economics in Obio/Akpor Local Government. Two objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses guided this study. The work utilized randomized pre-test and posttest quasi- experimental design to obtain data. The population consist of 6,134 senior secondary two Economics students in 20 public senior secondary schools. Three schools were selected using purposive sampling while three intact classes were randomly selected through randomized sampling technique. All the students in the intact classes formed the sample size 302. Evaluation instrument tagged EPTBTEA were utilized to obtain data. Test-retest technique was utilized to establish a reliability coefficient of 0.75 through PPMC. Mean and standard deviations were used to evaluate data from respondents, while ANCOVA was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results exposed that students taught with jigsaw 1 performed better than those not given the treatment. When gender was exposed to the treatment also revealed that male student performed better than their female counterpart. In light of the findings the study recommends that Instructors must receive on the use of cooperative learning strategies particularly jigsaw 1 in teaching concepts in Economics.