Impact of Peer Tutoring and Co-Operative Learning on the Academic Achievement of Adolescents in Education District II of Lagos State (Assessment implication for Evaluators)

The current paradigm shift in teaching-learning processes of the 21st century education space is the student centered approach of keeping the students actively engaged and involved within the limited learning time. It is no more the teacher centered approach, whereby teachers to do all the talking while students watch and listen during class time of lessons. ‘With the aim of sustaining this paradigm shift, the study examined the impact of peer tutoring and cooperative learning on academic achievement of adolescents in Education District II of Lagos State. The descriptive survey research design was employed. Three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The instrument for the study was a self-constructed questionnaire “Impact of Peer Tutoring and Cooperative Learning on students’ Academic Achievements (IPTCLSAA) questionnaire, and Mathematics Achievement Test (MAT). Findings from the study revealed that cooperative learning, peer tutoring exerts a significant influence on  students’ achievement in Mathematics lastly, the joint effect of students’ use of cooperative learning and peer tutoring towards Mathematics was significant on their academic achievement, when such effect accounted for 27.6% of the variance in the students’ academic achievement; such significant effect emanated from the individual significant contribution or influence which the culture of using peer tutoring had on academic achievement, while the culture of using cooperative learning had no significant effect on academic achievement. It was recommended among others that the Nigerian Government/Ministry of Education/all well-meaning education stakeholders should encourage the school teachers with financial aids or incentives in order to attend seminars and capacity building workshop in relation to best practices of using cooperative learning and peer tutoring to impart knowledge in mathematics, and that curriculum    planners should replicate this research in order to authenticate the findings obtained. Keywords: Impact, Peer Tutoring, Cooperative learning, Adolescents’, Academic Achievement.