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EFFECTS OF TESTWISENESS STRATEGY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
This study under seeks the effects of testwiseness strategy on the academic performance of senior secondary school students in Economics in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study employed a pretest, posttest and control group quasi -experimental design. The population of the study comprised all the public senior secondary school II (SSS2) students offering Economics in Oyo State, Nigeria. A sample of 240 SSS II students was used for the study using a multistage sampling procedure. The instruments used in the study were Economics Achievement Test (EAT) and Testwiseness Questionnaire (TQ). The face and content validity of the instruments was ascertained by expert judgment. The reliability coefficient of EAT was estimated using the test re-test reliability method while the reliability coefficient of TQ was estimated using the Cronbach Alpha reliability method. The reliability coefficients of EAT and TQ were 0.79 and 0.82 respectively. Data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The research questions raised were answered using mean, standard deviation and bar chart while the hypotheses formulated were tested using Student’s t -test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at a 0.05 level of significance. Results of the study show that there was a significant difference in the performance of students exposed to testwisness strategy and those in the control group. Also, the results show that there was no significant effect of the testwisness strategy on the performance of the students based on gender and school location. It was, therefore, concluded that students exposed to the test wiseness strategy performed more than those not exposed to the test wiseness strategy and that gender and school location have no significant interactive effect on the student’s achievement in Economics when exposed to the testwiseness strategy. It was recommended that students should be exposed to testwiseness strategy to improve their performance in Economics irrespective of their gender and school location.
Keywords: Academic Performance, Economics, Gender, School Location, Strategy, Testwiseness