Achievement in Cooperative versus Individualistic Goal-Structured Junior Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms in Nigeria

Adeneye Olarewaju Adeleye Awofala; Alfred Olufemi Fatade; Samuel Adejare Ola-Oluwa

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Volume 3 | Issue 1 | Year 2012 | Article Id. IJMTT-V3I1P502 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V3I1P502

Achievement in Cooperative versus Individualistic Goal-Structured Junior Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms in Nigeria

Adeneye Olarewaju Adeleye Awofala, Alfred Olufemi Fatade, Samuel Adejare Ola-Oluwa

Abstract

This study investigated the comparative effect of cooperative variants of STAD/TGT and individualistic goal structure on the mathematics achievement of 80 junior secondary school Nigerian students. The study adopted a pretest, post-test control group quasi-experimental design and data collected for the study were analysed using the t-test statistic. The results showed that significant difference existed in the mathematics achievement of cooperative and individualistic goal structure groups in favour of cooperative group. The cooperative strategy also enhanced students’ mastery of mathematics content at both the comprehension and application levels than at the knowledge level of cognition. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that STAD/TGT as variants of cooperative learning should be used by teachers to complement the teaching of mathematics at the secondary school level.

Keywords

Cooperative learning, student teams and achievement division (STAD), teams-games-tournaments (TGT), individualistic goal structure, mathematics achievement, knowledge level of cognition, comprehension level of cognition, application level of cognition.

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Citation :

Adeneye Olarewaju Adeleye Awofala, Alfred Olufemi Fatade, Samuel Adejare Ola-Oluwa, "Achievement in Cooperative versus Individualistic Goal-Structured Junior Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms in Nigeria," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 7-12, 2012. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V3I1P502