EFFECT OF CONCEPT MAPPING STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ BUSINESS STUDIES ACHIEVEMENT IN A PERIOD OF SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY

This study investigated the effect of concept mapping on academic achievement of secondary school students in business studies in Anambra State, Nigeria. The study was two research questions and two hypotheses. This study adopted a non-equivalence pre-test, post-test, quasi- experimental design. The population for the study was 21, 109 JSII students (9, 988 males and 11, 121 females) in the 164 coeducational public secondary schools across the six education zones in Anambra State. Two intact classes of 100 students selected from two different schools participated in the study. BUSAT was The instrument used for data collection was 50-objective item Business Studies Achievement Test (BUSAT) constructed from the business studies scheme of work for first term junior secondary school three (JSSIII). validated by experts. The reliability of the study was tested using split-half method on Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient which yielded a coefficient index of 0.96. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested with t-test statistic using the SPSS version 25. The study found among others, students taught business studies using concept mapping strategy had better mean achievement than students taught business studies using the conventional method. The mean achievement score of the female students taught business studies using concept mapping strategy was higher than that of the male students (42.88>37.64); The study found significant difference between the mean achievement scores of secondary school students taught business studies using conventional and concept mapping strategies; but no significant difference in the mean achievement scores of male and female students taught business studies using concept mapping strategy. The study recommended among others, that business studies teachers should adopt the concept mapping strategy in the teaching of business studies in junior secondary schools in order to improve students? learning outcome.

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