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EFFECT OF RECIPROCAL TEACHING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS? PERFORMANCE IN WORD PROBLEM LEADING TO SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS FOR CREATIVITY IN BASIC, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION IN YOBE STATE

U. A. Ginga, B. Mohammed & N. Usman

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Abstract The study investigated the effect of reciprocal teaching strategy on performance in Word problem leading to simultaneous equations for creativity in Basic, Secondary and Tertiary Education in Potiskum educational Zone Yobe State, Nigeria. The population of the study covered fifteen public senior secondary schools in Potiskum Educational Zone of Yobe State with total number of 5,543 students. Samples of four schools with a total number of 210 students? were selected using simple random sampling technique and participated in the study. In each school one intact class was randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. The study has two research objectives, answered two research questions and tested two null hypotheses at p?0.05 level of significance. The study adopted quasi-experimental design involving pretest, posttest control group design. For the purpose of data collection, one instrument; Algebra Word Problem Performance Test (AWPPT) was used. The instrument was validated by experts and pilot tested with the reliability coefficient of 0.75 obtained using Pearson Product Movement Correlation Coefficient (PPMC). The hypotheses were tested using Independent sample t- test statistics and the results obtained from the analysis revealed that there was significant difference in performance in favour of students exposed to Reciprocal Teaching Strategy (RTS). The results further showed no significant difference in performance of male and female students when exposed to reciprocal teaching strategy. The study concludes that Reciprocal Teaching Strategy (RTS) is effective in enhancing students? performance and the strategy is gender friendly in terms of performance. Based on the findings of the study recommendations were made such as Curriculum planners and curriculum development bodies in Nigeria like NERDC should design programme that will incorporate the use of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy in teaching Mathematics at senior secondary school level. Keywords: Algebra Word Problems, Performance, Reciprocal Teaching Strategy

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