EFFECT OF THINK-PAIR-SHARE COOPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOL, KUJE AREA COUNCIL, ABUJA, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of think-thank share cooperative learning strategy on students’ achievement in biology in senior secondary schools, Kuje Area Council, Abuja. Quasi experimental design was adopted for this study. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling technique were used to obtain secondary schools out of 8 senior secondary schools within Kuje Area council. The instruments used for the data collection was Biology Achievement Test (BAT), Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to calculate the reliability of BAT which gave 0.89. The results revealed that students taught biology using think-pair-share cooperative learning strategy significantly had improve achievement than those taught using conventional method. Male student taught biology using think-thank pair share cooperative learning strategy did not develop a better than female students taught with the same Strategy. Based on the findings, the study recommends that seminars, workshops and conference should be held for biology teachers to acquaint them with knowledge of think pair share cooperative learning strategy and they should encourage to use it in their classroom teaching