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IMPACT OF GROUP-BASED MASTERY LEARNING STRATEGY ON ATTITUDE, RETENTION AND PERFORMANCE IN TRIGONOMETRY AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA

Umar Abdullahi

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Abstract This study investigated the Impact of Group-Based Mastery Learning Strategy on Attitude, Retention and Performance in Trigonometry among Junior Secondary School Students in Katsina State, Nigeria. Randomized pretest, posttest, delay-posttest quasi experimental and control group design was used.Two hundred and fifty (250) sampled students were used selected from a total population of twenty three thousand one hundred and forty one (23,141) students in the study area. Trigonometric Performance Test (TPT) and Trigonometric Attitude Questionnaire (TAQ) with reliable co-efficient of (r) = 0.76 and 0.75 respectively were validated and used as instruments for data collection in this research work. The data collected were analyzed and presented using mean-rank, mean and standard deviation to answer all the five (5) research questions, Mann-Whitney U-test and t-test statistics to test all the five (5) formulated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significant. Pretest result revealed that both experimental and control groups are of equal position in terms of their attitudes and performance but males performed significantly better than females in the experimental group. However, posttest and delay posttest result revealed that experimental group have more positive attitude, retained and performed significantly better than the control group but males and females in the experimental group are of equal position. This shows that group-based mastery learning strategy is gender friendly and impact positively on students? attitudes, performance and retention. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that: katsina state ministry of education in collaboration with professional bodies such as Mathematics Association of Nigeria (MAN), Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) and National Teachers Institute (NTI) should organize Seminars, Workshops and Conferences aim at teaching junior secondary school teachers on how to use group-based mastery learning strategy effectively in teaching of trigonometry. In addition,further research work on the use of group-based mastery learning strategy could be extended to senior secondary schools, tertiary institutions as well as to other areas of mathematic.

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