Title:
EXPERIENTIAL TEACHING STRATEGY AND THE TEACHNG /LEARNING OF ECONOMICS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE

Authors:
Oleabhiele, Eric Oziegbe (Ph.D.)

Volume:1 Issue: 7

Abstract:
The research is intended to awaken the consciousness of teachers on recent developments in the business of teaching and learning by examining experiential teaching strategy i and its effect in the teaching /learning of Economics The sample of study comprises of a 149 economics students purposively and randomly selected from four senior secondary schools II students in Aba education zone of Abia state. The study adopted pre-test and post- test control group research design. Economics Achievement Test was used for data collection and were developed by the researcher. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The research question was answered using mean and standard deviation while analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that students taught economics using the experiential teaching method performed better than those taught using the conventional method Hence, the researcher recommended that teachers should endeavour to adopt and utilize Experiential i teaching strategy in teaching /learning of economics as this method will enhance the overall achievement of economics students in senior secondary schools in both internal and external examinations.

Citation:

[Oziegbe, Oleabhiele, Eric. "EXPERIENTIAL TEACHING STRATEGY AND THE TEACHNG /LEARNING OF ECONOMICS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE." IJAH, vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 531-538. August.]