GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study sought to ascertain the effect of ask peer tutoring technique and lecture method on academic performance of international trade and ware-housing students. Two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses were drawn to guide the study. The research design was quasi-experimental study using the Pretest-Posttest control group design. The population for the study will comprises of 398 final year commerce students in all the seven state owned Colleges of Education in South-South zone of Nigeria. The study sample consisted of 230-year three commerce students (145 females and 85 males) The stratified random sampling technique was used to select the four colleges from the seven (7) state owned colleges of Education in the South-South zone. The researcher developed instrument of 60 multiple-choice Test: tagged Commerce Performance Test (CPT) was used for data collection. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was determined using test- retest method. It was then concluded from the study that students taught with Ask peer tutoring technique do better than their colleagues thought with lecture method on academic performance of students when taught are –housing likewise the student taught international trade. One of the recommendations stated in the study is that appropriate teaching strategies should be adopted by teachers in teaching the students in order to motivate them for higher performance. One of the teaching methods recommended here include ask peer method of teaching, which give them an opportunity to make more discovery at ease.