Effect of Co-Operative Mastery Learning Strategy on Achievement in Social Studies of IX Graders

The Study was intended to investigate the effect of teaching through co-operative mastery learning strategy on the achievement in social studies. Sample of the study consisted of 210 (105 experimental group and 105 controlled group) IX class students from two Government secondary schools of Ludhiana district of Punjab, India. Experimental group was exposed to co-operative mastery learning strategy and the controlled group was exposed to conventional method (lecture and discussion). Achievement test in social studies (developed and standardized by the investigator) was used as tool for data collection. The results of the study showed that achievement in social studies of the group exposed to co-operative mastery learning strategy was significantly more as compared to group taught by conventional method.