THINK-PAIR-SHARE STRATEGY AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OGBOMOSO NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

This study examined the effect of the Think-Pair-Share strategy on student achievement in secondary school Agricultural science in Ogbomoso north local government area of Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a pretest, posttest, and control group quasi experimental design using 2x2 factorial matrix. The population of the study was made up of all Senior Secondary Schools 2 (SS2) students in Ogbomoso north local government area of Oyo State Nigeria. Three hypotheses guided the study. Purposive Sampling Technique was used to ten (10) Senior Secondary Schools in the study area. Ten students were selected from each of the schools by using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. One hundred students participated in the study which was made up of fifty (50) males and fifty (50) females respectively. The instrument used for data collection is titled Agricultural Science Achievement Test (ASA) with a Reliability Coefficient of 0.78 by using Pearson Correlation. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics (Mean and Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (Analysis of Covariate was used to analyze the stated hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that there is the main effect of the strategy on the student’s achievement in Agricultural science. Also, it was established that there is no significant main effect of gender on the achievement of the students in Agricultural science. Therefore, the researcher recommends among others that, the Think-Pair-Share method of teaching should be incorporated into the learning and teaching of Agricultural science in Senior Secondary Schools.