Effects of Play-way Teaching strategies on Cognitive and Social Skills Development among public Primary School Pupils in Ogun state.

The study investigated the effect of play-way teaching strategies on Cognitive and Social Skills development among primary school pupils in Ogun state, Nigeria. Quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study. Population of the study consists of all primary school class six pupils during the 2024/2025 academic session among public primary schools in Ogun State, Nigeria. A sample size of 154 pupils were selected from the target population using multi-stage sampling technique. Cronbach Alpha was used to validate play wat teaching strategies on cognitive and social skills development at index of 0.821. Moderating variables of Gender and attitude of learners were examined on the outcome variable. Data were analyzed, using inferential statistics of Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows a significant effect of play-way teaching strategies on cognitive skills development among Primary School pupils. Also, there is no significant main effect of gender on cognitive skills development among Primary School pupils. Lastly, there is no significant main effect of gender on Social Skills development among Primary School pupils in Ogun East Senatorial District. It was concluded from findings of the study that play way teaching strategy had significant effect on cognitive and social skills development of primary school pupils. Based on the finding of the study, a step-by-step user-friendly teaching guides on play way strategies should be designed by teachers to enhance the readiness and interest of primary school pupils towards learning.