Effects of Collaborative Teaching Strategy on Senior Secondary Students’ Achievement in Map Reading in Misau, Bauchi Nigeria

Waziri Maigari

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As a result of consistent poor achievement of senior secondary school students in geography, this study was conducted to determine the effects of collaborative teaching strategy on senior secondary students’ achievement in map reading in Misau, Bauchi Nigeria, quasi experimental design was adopted in the study. The population of the study was 427 The SS II Geography students comprise 246 males and 181 females.  The sample of the study was 101 (59 males and 42 females). The researcher used simple random sampling and selected two secondary schools. The instruments used for data collection for this study were the map reading achievement test (MRAT) after validation process by experts, and a pilot study, the reliability confident of the instrument was 0.78 obtained (PPMCC) using (SPSS). Data were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and the Z-Test to test the null hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed that students that were exposed to collaborative teaching strategy achieved significantly higher than the control group that received no treatment. Also, there was no significant gender difference in achievement of the experimental group. This shows that collaborative teaching strategy is a gender friendly strategy. It was recommended that that teacher should be trained by the ministry of education and other educational contributing bodies like non-governmental organizations, and policy makers on the use of collaborative teaching strategies through workshops and seminars. 


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