IMPACT OF COOPERATIVE AND COMPETITIVE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IN SOCIAL STUDIES EDUCATION IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA
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2021-12-08
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Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
Abstract
The study titled ―Impact of Cooperative and Competitive Instructional Strategies on
Junior Secondary School Students‘ Academic Performance in Social Studies, Kwara
State, Nigeria.‖ The study was guided by four objectives, research questions and
corresponding hypotheses each. The research design for the study is the quasi-
experimental research design. The population of the study was 105,810 Social Studies
Education students. Purposive sampling technique was used to select three schools in
Lafiagi Educational zone of Kwara State. The sample size used for the study was 120
research participants. The teacher made test was designed and tagged Social Studies
Performance Test (SSPT) was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument
was validated by team of supervisors and experts in Language and Statistics for content,
face and construct validity. The reliability index for instrument is .812. Hypotheses one,
three and four were tested by the use of ANCOVA and hypothesis two was tested by
ANOVA. Hypotheses one, two and four were accepted and three was rejected. The
findings of the study revealed that: gender does not have any significant effect on
students‘ academic performance whether in experimental (Cooperative and Competitive
Strategy) or control group. Differences exist in the academic performance between the
experimental and control groups. Location does not have effect on the academic
performance of the two groups. The study made the following recommendation: Teachers
should make use of cooperative and competitive instructional strategy in teaching
because it creates an enabling environment where learners can interact in series of
learning activities which lead to better understanding of the concepts. Teachers should
not discriminate that the learning is based on gender because, cooperative and
competitive is not gender biased. Teachers should make rural and urban environment
enabling in order to report academic per excellence. There should be well defined
instructional strategy to support students and teachers in teaching and learning of Social
Studies Education at the Junior Secondary School level. The study made the contribution
to knowledge in Cooperative and Competitive instructional strategies.