EFFECT OF MASTERY LEARNING TEACHING METHOD ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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Date
2022-10
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Faculty of Education, Kwara State University, Malete
Abstract
Business education whose objective is to be a programme of excellence is concerned with
quality assurance and standard maintenance. However, while very few business education
students perform well in Financial Accounting, the vast majority of them perform poorly. It is
as a result of this poor performance that this study was conducted to examine the effects of
mastery learning on students’ academic performance in financial accounting in Niger state,
Nigeria. Two specific purposes, two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses
were formulated for the study. Pretest, posttest nonequivalent control group quasiexperimental
design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised 3733
senior secondary school students offering Financial Accounting in Niger State. The
purposive sampling technique was used to determine the sample size of 198 students for the
study. The instrument for data collection was a self-designed Financial Accounting
Performance Test (FAPT) which was validated by four experts. A reliability coefficient of
0.96 was obtained for the test item using Cronbach Alpha. Mean and standard deviation
were used to answer the research question, while Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) was
used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that students
who are taught Financial Accounting using the mastery learning method performed better
than those taught using the conventional teaching method (M = 85.33, SD = 7.40); there was
a significant main effect of treatment of mastery learning teaching method on academic
performance of secondary school students in Financial Accounting (F(1,134) = 924.927; P =
0.000); there was a significant gender effect on the academic performance of students taught
financial accounting with mastery learning method of teaching(F(1,134)= 4.619; P =
0.033).Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that mastery learning method has
positive effects on students’ academic performance in Financial Accounting. The study
recommends among others that teachers of financial accounting should adopt mastery
learning teaching methods in their classes because the method is capable of stimulating
students learning, which will lead to better academic performance.