Title:
EFFECTS OF PEER TUTORING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY ON SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND INTEREST IN RINGIM EDUCATION ZONE, JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Authors:
Kamal Ahmad MUAZ and Dr. Mohammed Abel Ali

Abstract:
This study investigated the effects of peer tutoring Instructional strategy on secondary school Biology students’ academic achievement and interest in Ringim Education Zone, Jigawa State, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and two null hypotheses guided the study, this study adopted a quasiexperimental pretest, and posttest, experimental and control group design. The study comprises a population of 4,740 SS II biology students in the 28 public senior secondary schools in Ringim Education Zone. Purposive sampling technique was used to select two co-educational schools which comprised of 64 students as the sampled from two intact classes of the two selected schools (29 students for experimental group and 35 students for control group). Biology Achievement Test (BAT) was used to collect the data. Reliability coefficient of BAT was 0.72 and reliability index of Biology Students Interest Questionnaire was 0.81 using the Cronbach’s Alpha method. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) for answering research questions and inferential statistics (ANCOVA) for testing the null hypotheses. The result revealed that biology students in experimental group taught Digestive system using peer tutoring method have higher mean achievement than those taught using conventional method, also Female biology students have higher achievement scores than their male counterpart in Digestive system when taught using peer tutoring method than those taught using conventional method. The findings also indicated that biology students taught Digestive system using peer tutoring strategy in the experimental group have higher mean interest scores than those in the control group taught using conventional method. Based on the findings of the study it was recommended that secondary school biology teachers in Ringim Education Zone should expose their students to peer tutoring learning strategy in order to improve their academic achievement and interest in learning Biology.

Keywords:
Peer Tutoring Instructional Strategy, Conventional Method, Academic Achievement, Interest and Gender

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Date of Publication: 09-04-2024