Vol. 15, No. 1, June - December 2023

Technological advancement is one the major factors that led to the use of blended learning. The problems of, untrained Social Studies teachers, large class and grossly inadequate facilities have accounted for the use of blended learning strategy in teaching and learning today. Blended learning is a web-enhanced instruction where students are exposed to internet and digital identified problems and enhance performance. Performance of social studies students in the state, even though satisfactory could be bettered. The general purpose of this study was to find out if the blended learning strategy has significant effect on the performance of learners in social studies in Upper-basic. The specific objective was to look at the difference in the performance of learners exposed to blended learning on the basis of gender and ability grouping and its interactive effect t. The research methodology employed for this work was in 1 x 2 x 3 non randomised quasi-experimental design. The population for this study was an Upper-basic school 11 students in Ilorin. Two schools were purposively sampled. The schools were purposively selected because of their strong and efficient elearning centre. The experimental group has a population of 33 participants while the control group has 28 participants. Researchers made use of Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. It was found out that that the students that are exposed to the blended learning performed significantly to those taught with conventional method. On the contrary, there was no significant difference on the performance of students exposed to blended learning on the basis of gender. Further finding revealed that there was a significant difference in the performance of high, medium and low ability level exposed to blended learning Based on findings recommendations were made that Teachers should expose learners to blended learning strategies in order for the students to perform satisfactorily in teaching and learning of Social Studies amongst others

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