Effect of Collaborative Learning Strategy on academic achievement in Vocational Subjects among Primary School Pupils in Uvwie, Delta State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the role of collaborative learning on pupils academic achievement in vocational subjects in uvwie local government area, Nigeria. Two research questions and  two null hypotheses guide the study. The study adopted a quasi experimental research design for both treatment and control groups. The population of the study  consists of 8,932  pupils of  the 21 primary schools in uvwie local government area in Delta state. As reported by  basic education board, Asaba , 2025, from this population, a sample size of 136 pupils were selected using purposive sampling. Purposive sampling was  also used to select the two schools with specific criteria relevant to the study, characteristics and their similarity in academic performance, size, and accessibility. These criteria were essential to ensure a fair and meaningful comparison between the experimental and control groups. The intact class of 68 pupils were used for the study. One school served as the experimental group, and the other served as the control group.  The instrument for data collection for the study was  agriculture science achievement Test.  The items of this instrument were developed by the researchers from the agriculture science content in  primary five. The instrument consisted of 10 Multiple-choice questions based on primary school curriculum content for agriculture science. The instrument was validated by experts in education and pilot tested to ensure reliability. The experimental group received the treatment. while the control group continued with conventional instruction. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (e.g., t-test) to determine the significance of the difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of both groups. The results revealed that collaborative learning technique has a strong positive effect  post – test on pupils academic performance in vocational subjects in primary school. The study also shown that pupils who are expose to collaborative learning perform better than their counterpart who learnt  vocational subjects using conventional method in primary.  Therefore, the study recommended among others that Local education authority and heads of primary schools should  organize training for primary schools teachers on the use collaborative learning technique. Primary schools pupils should be exposed by teachers in the use of collaborative learning  of vocational subjects in the classroom.