Dr Ibrahim T. Bokko, Dr Umaru Abdullahi & Dr Lawas A. Mbahi
Abstract
The study examined students’ perception on the formation of study group discussion in the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. It adopted a survey design that sought the perceptions of study group and non-study group students on the benefits of study group discussion among undergraduate students in the University of Maiduguri. Unstructured interview with reliability index of 0.58 was used as instrument for data collection. The population of the study consisted of all the undergraduate students in the University of Maiduguri in 2021/2022 academic session. Fifteen (15) respondents from five study groups volunteered and eight (8) respondents from non-study group students identified through snowball with the assistance of their classmates among the study group students were interviewed on their perceptions on study group formation. Mann-Whitney U Test was used to analyze the data. The result revealed that there was a significant difference in the perception of study group and non-study group students on the formation of study group discussion at Z scores of -3.252 and P-value of .001. It was recommended that counselling intervention should be extended to the non-study group students to benefit from the use of study group discussion.