Practitioners/Teachers 

Journal of Economics (JE) 6(1):30-36 

There has been a trend of poor achievement in Economics in Secondary Schools. It is, therefore, necessary to embark on research work in Economics Education towards finding solutions to the factors responsible for students’ failure in the subject. Hence, this study was to determine the effect of cooperative learning on economics achievement and attitude towards economics as a school subject. This quasi-experimental study was carried out on two Senior Secondary School classes in Lagos Nigeria. One class (n = 44) was assigned as an experimental group and the other (n = 38) was assigned as a control group. The two groups were pretested on achievement test and attitude towards economics prior the implementation experimental study. At the end of the study, a post-test was administered. Data were analysed using the t-test to determine performance by comparing the mean of the post test for treatment and control group. The results of this study showed that cooperative learning methods improve students’ achievement in economics and attitude towards economics. The researchers concluded that cooperative learning is an effective approach, which economics teachers need to incorporate in their teaching if improved results are to be achieved.