ABSTRACT

The study examined the relationship between collaborative learning method and academic performance of secondary school students in Lagos State: Implication for counselling. A total of 200 (two hundred) sampled students were selected and used for this study. A total of four (4) null hypotheses were formulated and tested using the Pearson product moment correlation and the independent t-test tools at 0.05 level of significance.

At the end of the data analysis, results obtained include the following:

(1) There is a significant relationship between collaborative learning method and students' academic performance in school.

(2) There is a significant relationship between the academic performance of students taught by collaborative learning method and those taught by other method of teaching in school.

(3) There is a significant relationship between personality and academic performance of students based on the use of collaborative learning in schools.

(4) Finally, there is a significant gender difference in the academic performance of students due to the application of collaborative learning method in schools.