Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategy on Secondary School Students’ Achievement in Commerce in Enugu State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of Cooperative Learning Strategy on Secondary School Students Achievement in Commerce in Enugu State. The design adopted for the study was quasi experimental, precisely pretest, Posttest non-equivalent control/group. Two research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. The population for the study consisted of 450 SSS one students who offered commerce in 2019/2020 academic year in Enugu State, Nigeria. The sample consisted of eighty students (40 males and 40 females) drawn from the target population using sample random sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was Commerce Achievement Test (CAT). The instrument was face and content validated by three experts. The instrument was further tested on 20 Senior Secondary School one students similar to those used for the study in Ebonyi State. The researcher adopted the Kudar Richardson formula (K-R20) in determining the pre-CAT and post-CAST hence yielded reliability coefficient of 0.65. Mean and standard deviation was used in answering research questions. Hypotheses were tested using Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) at 0.5 level of significance. The study revealed that: students taught commerce using cooperative method performed better than their counterparts using conventional method. It also revealed that male students achieved higher than their female when taught commerce using cooperative learning strategy. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government should make cooperative teaching strategy compulsory. Keywords: Commerce, Cooperative strategy, secondary School and achievement . DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/14-14-11 Publication date: July 31 st 2022