IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

International Journal of Education and Evaluation (IJEE )

E-ISSN 2489-0073
P-ISSN 2695-1940
VOL. 9 NO. 9 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ijee.v9.no9.2023.pg34.44

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Effects of Self-Directed Learning on Achievement of Social Studies Students in College of Education Zing, Taraba Nigeria

Simon Frida Adams, Dr. Dauda a. Ariya (Ph.D), Prof. Gladys O. Oti

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Abstract

The study examined the effects of self-directed learning strategy on achievement of Social Studies students’ in College of Education Zing. The study adopted the non-equivalent group, pre-test-post- test quasi-experimental design. One hundred and eighteen (118) NCE II students offering Social Studies as teaching subject and the Social Studies major in College of Education, Zing Taraba State, Nigeria, constitutes the sample size for the study selected simple random sampling technique. The instrument used for the data collection was Social Studies Achievement Test (SSAT) with a reliability coefficient of 0.75, obtained using test and re-test techniques. The data collected were analysed with mean and standard deviation for all research questions and t–test for independent samples and ANCOVA was used to test hypotheses formulated for the study at 0.05 level of significance. Self-directed strategy was found to be effective in improving the achievement of students in Social Studies as indicated in the Post-test result that there is significant difference between the mean score of students in the experimental and control groups in Social Studies. On the effect of self-directed learning strategy across gender, the findings revealed that achievement of male students who were exposed to self-directed learning strategy did not significantly differ from that of the female students. Based on the findings, it was recommended that School administrators, teachers and government should emphasis more on the application of self-directed learning strategy alongside other conventional methods. Doing so, will improve the academic achievements of students in all area of academic endeavors. And Irrespective of gender of students, self-directed learning strategy should be employed at all time.

keywords:

Social Studies, Strategy, Self-directed strategy, achievement, and students

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