Effect Of Think-Pair-Share Cooperative Learning Strategies on Academic Performance and Attitude Towards Civic Education Among Senior Secondary School Students In Dutsin-Ma Quality Assurance, Katsina State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the Effect of think-pair-share Cooperative Learning Strategies on Academic Performance and Attitude towards Civic Education among Senior Secondary School Students in Dutsin-Ma Quality Assurance, Katsina State, Nigeria. The study was guided with two research questions, hypotheses. The study employed pre-test post-test quasi-experimental research design with the population of 712 students and the sample of 20 SS 2 of GPSS Yarima Dutsin-Ma who were teacher identified with poor academic performance and negative attitude towards Civic Education were purposively selected. The instruments used for data collection at the pre-test and posttest in the study were Civic Education Performance Test and Attitude towards Civic Education Scale. The performance test has 50 questions based on the second term scheme of work while the attitude scale has 30 items measured on five point-likert scale which was validated by professionals in the department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, faculty of education Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The reliability coefficient of Attitude scale has .871 as established using Cronbach Alpha. Data were collected at the pre, treatment and post-test respectively. The data collected were analyzed with paired sample t-test using SPSS version 26. Findings of the study revealed that; there was significant effect of think-pair-share on academic performance of students in Civic Education(t= 17.095, p = .000); there was significant effect of think-pair-share on attitudes of students towards Civic Education (t= 5.228, p = .000), Based on the finding of the study it was concluded that think- pair-share cooperative learning strategy have significant effect on academic performance and attitude towards Civic Education and that jigsaw was more effective on academic performance and attitude. It was recommended that Educational psychologists and counsellors should be encouraged to use think-pair-share cooperative learning strategy in enhancing poor academic performance and addressing negative attitude of senior secondary school students towards Civic Education.