TEACHERS RATING OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF JIGSAW AND CONCEPT MAPPING COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY IN TEACHING BUSINESS SUBJECTS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to examine teachers rating of the effectiveness of jigsaw and concept mapping collaborative learning strategies in teaching business subjects in senior secondary schools in Anambra state.  Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all 296 business subject teachers in secondary schools in 21 local government areas of Anambra State.  The instrument for data collection was a validated structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The test of reliability of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha yielded coefficient values of 0.84 and 0.77 were attained for clusters 1 and 2 respectively with over all co-efficient value of 0.80. Data collected for the study were analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test. The mean value was used to answer the research questions while the standard deviation was used to ascertain the homogeneity or otherwise of the respondents’ responses. t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at .05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that jigsaw and concept mapping are highly effective collaborative learning strategies for teaching business subjects in senior secondary schools in Anambra State. Findings also revealed that the gender and location did not influence business teachers’ opinion on the effectiveness of that jigsaw and concept mapping collaborative learning strategies for teaching business subjects in senior secondary schools in Anambra State. The researcher concludes that that the adoption of jigsaw and concept mapping collaborative teaching strategies would improve the quality of teaching learning of business subjects in senior secondary schools in Anambra State.  Based on these findings, the researcher recommends among others, that administrators of secondary schools in senior secondary schools should regularly organize training workshops that would educate teachers on the use of teaching strategies like jigsaw in teaching business concepts.