EFFECT OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING METHOD ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN EKITI AND ONDO STATES
Keywords:
Cooperative learning method, Lecture method, Financial accounting, and academic achievementAbstract
The major purpose of this study was to find the effect of cooperative learning method on academic achievement of financial accounting students in Colleges of Education in Ekiti and Ondo States. The research design used for the study was a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial design which consisted two groups of students (control and experimental). The population consisted of 420 (300 level) financial accounting students of business education Department in Colleges of Education in Ekiti and Ondo States. No sample selected because the populations too large for the study, hence census. Three research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested, computed and interpreted using mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Financial accounting achievement test (FAAT) was the instrument developed and administered for data collection. The instrument on cooperative learning method and lecture method lesson plans were face validated by three lecturers in the Department of Vocational Teacher Education, College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti. The reliability coefficient of the instrument for the study was 0 .97 which was calculated using Cronbachalpha method. The result of the study showed that: Cooperative learning method contributed significantly to a better understanding of financial accounting students than lecture method, students taught by cooperative learning method performed better than their lecture group counterparts when they solved financial accounting problems, the effect of gender was of no significant to students’ achievement in financial accounting, high ability students performed significantly better in financial accounting achievement test than the low ability students. The study concluded that cooperative learning method of teaching proved more effective than the lecture method in students’ achievement and therefore recommended that cooperative learning should be used in teaching financial accounting in Colleges of Education.References
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