COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY

Collens I. Odo, Adolphus Madu

Abstract


This study investigates cooperative learning strategy and students’ academic
achievement in biology. This study was guided by two research questions and
two hypotheses using quasi-experimental design. The population of the study
was made up of 1255 biology students in 15 public secondary schools in Isi-
Uzo L G A. the sample size used was 120 students the instrument used for data
collection was biology WAEC past questions drawn from Genetics, Nervous
system and Digestive system content areas in biology. Mean and standard
deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANCOVA was
used to test the hypotheses. Findings revealed that significant difference exist
between cooperative learning strategy and traditional learning method in
favor of cooperative learning strategy. Based on the findings
recommendations were made which includes: adequate attention should be
given to the female students since male has been found to perform better than
females using cooperative learning. Adequate training should be given to
secondary school biology teachers on the use of cooperative learning strategy
in teaching biology.

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