Effects of Visual Metaphor on Pupils’ Achievement in Social Studies in Bassa, Plateau State

The study investigated the effects of effects of visual metaphor on pupils’ achievement in Social Studies in Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses. The quasi-experimental research design specifically, utilized the non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design, since intact classes was employed as experimental and control groups without randomization. The population consists of is 2,215 primary five (5) pupils and 177 pupils from two intact classes were purposively sampled. The experimental group had 99 pupils and the control group with 77 pupils. Social Studies Achievement Test (SSAT) was used for data collection and the result revealed that there was a significant effect of visual metaphor strategy on pupils’ achievement in Social Studies and that male pupils performed slightly better than their female counterparts in Social Studies when exposed to visual metaphor. The study concluded that visual metaphor is an effective instructional strategy in fostering significant improvement on the achievement of pupils in Social Studies.