International Journal of Education and Evaluation (IJEE )
E-ISSN 2489-0073
P-ISSN 2695-1940
VOL. 10 NO. 4 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56201/ijee.v10.no4.2024.pg225.236
Clementina Hashimu Bulus & Grace Izang Paul
The study sought to investigate the effect of concept mapping instructional strategy on secondary school students’ achievement in Economics in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The population of the study consisted of all SSII students of economics in Mangu local government area of Plateau State. For the purpose of the research, the Economics Achievement Test (EAT) was used for data collection. The Economics Achievement Test (EAT) was used to determine students’ level of learning Economic concepts. The simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting the sampled schools, and intact classes in the two selected schools were used as the experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught using the students' concept mapping instructional strategy, and the control group was taught using the lecture teaching method. The reliability of the instrument was estimated using the Kuder-Richardson method, and a reliability of 0.87 was obtained. In answering the research questions, the descriptive statistical tools of mean and standard deviation were used. While all hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) at the 0.05% level of significance, The analysis was done with the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). The findings of the study revealed that concept mapping instructional strategy does increase students’ achievement in economics, male and female students had almost the same achievement in economics when exposed to concept mapping instructional strategy. The study recommended, among others, that teachers should be encouraged to incorporate collaborative learning activities that involve concept mapping because it is beneficial
Concept mapping instructional strategy, students’ achievement in Economics
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