IMPROVING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN COMPUTER STUDIES THROUGH THINK PAIR SHARE LEARNING STRATEGY
IMPROVING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN COMPUTER STUDIES THROUGH THINK PAIR SHARE LEARNING STRATEGY

Summary/Abstract: Following the numerous importance of think-pair-share learning strategy as an innovative learning strategy that has helped students achievement in various subjects and Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) Chief Examiner’s report on students’ weaknesses in Computer Studies concepts of internet, operating system, search engine, graphic package, corel draw, paint environment, spreadsheet package, computer safety, measure and computer software among upper basic students in Anambra state. This study examined improving secondary school students’ achievement in computer studies through think pair share learning strategy. Two purpose of study, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study was carried out in Otuocha education zone in Anambra State, Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of 6,982 JSS2 students’ in the zone. The study adopted quasi experimental design. The sample comprise 393 JSS2 students’ (169 males and 224 females) and was obtained using a multi-stage sampling procedure. 50 Computer Studies Achievement Test (CSAT) served as instrument for data collection for both post and retention test respectively. The instrument was subjected to content validation. CSAT reliability was established using Kudar Richardson 20 (KR-20) which yielded reliability coefficient of 0.70. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that students taught Computer Studies with TPS learning strategy achieved more than those taught Computer Studies with LM. Thus there is a significant difference in the mean achievement scores of students taught Computer Studies using think-pair-share learning strategy and those taught using lecture method. The study also showed that male students taught Computer Studies with TPS achieved better than their female counterpart, thus there is a significant difference in the mean achievement scores of male and female students taught Computer Studies using think-pairshare learning strategy. Based on these findings suggestions and conclusions were made.

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