Effect of Peer Tutoring and Play-Way Methods on Students’ Academic Achievement and Retention in Telecommunications in Colleges of Education in North-East, Nigeria

Babayo A. S., Tumba I., Ezugu L. C.

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This study determined the effect of peer tutoring and play-way methods on students’ academic achievement and retention in telecommunications course in colleges of education in north-east, Nigeria. The study used quasi-experimental design which employed non-equivalent pre-test, post-test control group design. The instrument for data collection was Telecommunications Achievement and Retention Test (TART) which comprises of 50 questions. Three experts validated the instrument which had a reliability coefficient index of 0.78.  The population of the study comprised of twenty two (22) students in Federal College of Education (Technical) Potiskum and nine (9) students in College of Education Hong which made up a total of 31, for the 2021/2022 session. The entire population was used as a sample. The data for the study was collected by the tutors after administering the instrument for the pretest prior to the commencement of the experiment and for the posttest after the treatment was completed within six weeks. Meanwhile, two weeks after the completion of the experiment, a retention test was also administered by the researcher with the help of two research assistants. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for analyzing the data. The findings of the study among which are: students taught telecommunications with peer tutoring had a higher mean achievement score than those students taught using the lecture teaching method in the achievement test, Students taught telecommunications with play-way had a higher mean retention score than those students taught using the lecture teaching method in the test for retention of learning. The recommendations of the study are among others; more attention should be accorded with peer tutoring teaching method in the colleges of education, technical teachers of telecommunications in north-east, Nigeria, should adopt the use of play-way methods to teach telecommunications, curriculum planners in National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) should consider review of curriculum for telecommunications for colleges of education with a view to incorporating the peer tutoring and play-way methods.


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