Effect of Advance Organizers Strategy on Learning Civic Education in Lower Primary Schools

Abstract

The importance of effective learning to learners especially the children cannot be exaggerated. Effective learning for children will go a long way in their future endeavours. To this end, the examination of the Advance Organizers Learning Strategy on effective acquisition of knowledge/skills for primary education pupils is a direct way of making children to learn directly to achieving goals. Advance Organizers Learning Strategy has been found effective in the teaching of some school subjects. It is against this background that the study establishes if the strategy will enhance knowledge in Civic Education among lower primary schools pupils. Seventy five pupils were chosen out of a population of primary three pupils in primary schools in Ile-Ife. The schools were purposively chosen because it’s good academic status. The pupils in primary three were randomized to classes of A, B, and C.

A is the Advance Organizers Group while class B is the Verbal Instruction Group and C is the Control Group. Group A was taught with Advance Organizers plus Verbal Instruction, Group B was taught with Verbal Instruction only, while Group C was not taught at all. Tests were given to the pupils which included the pre-test and the post-test.  Results show that the Advance Organizers Learning Strategy aided learning and the male pupils performed academically better than the female pupils. The strategy was recommended for teaching Civic Education in Primary schools and it was recommended that females should be assisted to meet up their male counterpart’s academic status.

Keywords:-  Advance  Organizers., Learning  Strategy, Civic  Education, Lower  Primary School