EFFECT OF REALIA MATERIAL ON ACHIEVEMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES UPPER BASIC II STUDENTS IN NYANYA-ABUJA FCT

This study-assessed effect of realia material on achievement of social questions and two null studies upper basic II hypotheses using quasi- Students in Nyanyaexperimental research Abuja FCT. The study was design. The population of guided by two research the study consist of all 4,788 upper basic II students in Nyanya-Abuja FCT and 120 upper basic II student were used as sample size of the study selected from two schools. Social Studies Achievement Test (SOSAT) and Social Studies Interest Inventory (SOSII) were used instruments for data collection, were validated which yielded 0.78 and 0.82 validity indexes. SOSAT and SOSII were pilot tested which yielding 0.79 and 0.82 reliability indexes. After the treatment, data generated was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions, while ANCOVA was used to test the hypotheses at the 95% confidence level.