IMPACT OF TEACHING STRATEGIES ON ACADEMIC ACHIENEMENT OF BUSINESS STUDIES STUDENTS IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ATIBA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OVO STATE

ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of teaching strategies on academic achievement of business studies students in Junior secondary school in Atiba Local Government Area, Oyo State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comsists of all junior students in Oyo West Local of Oyo State. The sample for the study was hundred (100) which were selected from seven junior secondary schools in Oyo Lacal Government Area of Oyo state. A purposive sampling technique was adopted in selecting the sample. A well structured questionnaire which consists of two sections Section one elicits the respondent's bio data while section two elicits the respondent's operational data and contains of 16 items which are used to elicit responses from the respondents and generated data for the study. Likert rating scale was used to determine whether the items are agreed or disagreed by the respondents. The instrument was face-validated by experts and also perused and corrected by the supervisor. Test retest was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument and gives a correlation coefficient of 0.89. The questionnaires were administered by the researcher and were immediately collected on the spot. The data collected were analyzed using arithmetic mean. A mean of 2.50 and above was taken as an index of agreement by the respondents while a mean below 2.50 was taken as an index of disagreement by the respondents while standard deviation was used to determine the closeness or otherwise of the responses by the respondents The findings revealed that cooperative learning strategy has helped and still helping to have a positive impact in teaching business studies, in problem solving strategy the teacher acts just as a facilitator rather than a primary source of information, there is a huge difference between comparative learning strategy and problem solving strategy, Male students tends to appreciate cooperative instructional strategies to its best use than the female students because male tends to have spirit of cooperation more than the female student.