Dr Victoria Atah Abanyam, Dr Doris Emmanuel Ushie, David Abua Opoh & Maria Christian Ofem
Abstract
This study, adopted survey research design, to investigate the relationship between innovative strategies and public basic secondary school students’ retention in Social Science subjects in Calabar Education Zone of Cross River State, Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study is public basic secondary school students in Calabar Education Zone. The researchers adopt a simple random sampling technique to select one hundred and twenty (120) students as sample for the study. The instruments used for data collection were a questionnaire tagged “Innovative Strategies Questionnaire (ISQ)” and Social Studies Retention Test. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used in computing the reliability coefficients which ranged from 0.69 to 0.76. To test the hypotheses, Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical analysis was employed at the 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that there was a significant relationship between the use of Google Meet, Zoom Cloud, Google Forms, spreadsheet and basic secondary school students’ retention in Social Science subjects in the study area. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that the Ministry of Education should promote the use of innovative strategies used in this study in the teaching and learning of Social Science subjects.