An evaluatin of the effectiveness of a simulation game history teaching for secondary school pupils

Abstract

This study investigated the effectiveness of a simulation game in the teaching of history to secondary school pupils at matriculation level. History as taught in the schools has for a long time been a source of criticism and many educationists are perturbed by this fact. It is with this in mind that this investigation has been undertaken. In order to facilitate the investigation fifty matriculation pupils were divided into two unmatched groups. One group, the experimental group, was exposed to instruction by the simulation technique and the other, the control group was exposed to instruction by conventional methods. Both groups wrote the same achievement t»st and the results showed that the control group's achievement was better than that oi the experimental group. There are various reasons for this result as the investigation will indicate. It is apparent from the result that using non-equivalent groups for the investigation could not substantiate the hypothesis.