EFFECT OF PEER-TUTORING LEARNING TEACHING MEHOD ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STUDENTS IN FEDERAL UNITY COLLEGES, IN NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences

Year: 2018 | Volume: 1 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 7-15
DOI: http://www.doi.org/10.33422/JARSS.2018.04.21

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EFFECT OF PEER-TUTORING LEARNING TEACHING MEHOD ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING STUDENTS IN FEDERAL UNITY COLLEGES, IN NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA

ADAMU IBRAHIM, KUSA GIPSON WUNBA

ABSTRACT: 

This study established the effect of peer tutoring teaching method on students’ performance in financial accounting in Federal unity Colleges of in North-East, Nigeria. The study had three objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses. Quasi experimental design was used for the study. The population of the study was 130 SS II Financial Accounting students. An intact two classes of 46 students were used for the study. Two instruments were used for data collection were validated by four experts. The instrument had the coefficient of 0.87 and 0.89. The difficulty index of instruments stood at 0.76 and 0.81. The discriminating index of the items range from 0.5 to 0.7. Data collected were analyzed using mean and mean difference to answer the research questions. T-test was employed in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed among others that there was significant difference between the mean performance of financial accounting students in experimental group and those in control group. It was concluded that using of peer tutoring strategy will help to improve the performance of financial accounting students. It was recommended among others that, accounting teachers should develop habit of using interactive methods which allows students to actively participate in the teaching and learning excise.

Keywords: Accounting, Learning, Peer-Tutoring, Performance.