Exploratory Study of Playway Method in Primary Schools in Gwagwalada Area Council of The Fct, Nigeria

Rashidat Omotayo Abdulsalam-Nuhu, Rasaq Sulyman

Abstract


Play helps in all areas of child development socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively. Play is an essential component of learning among children, because they learn best through play. Without using play, learning in children will be impaired and apparently, the performance is affected. The study investigated the use and effect of play way method in teaching social studies in primary schools in Gwagwalada. The objectives of the study was to use play way method and investigate the effect of play way method on pupils’ achievement. Two public primary schools were purposively selected to constitute experimental and control groups respectively. The experimental group was taught using play way method while the control group was taught with the conventional method. The design for this study was quasi-experimental research design where non-equivalent pretest posttest control group design was used. The scores obtained from the two groups were compared to see the effect of the play way teaching method in primary four pupils’ performance in social studies. The finding revealed that play way method does not affect the performance of primary 4 school pupils’ in Gwagwalada Area Council. It was also indicated that gender does not have any significant difference on the male and female performance of primary 4 school pupils’ in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja when using play method of teaching.

Keywords


Play way; Quasi-experimental design; Social studies; Teaching

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