ABSTRACT
The impetus for this study was to establish the relative importance of two methods of teaching in the Senior Secondary Schools in Kaduna State. This study therefore compared the effect of Discovery and Demonstration Methods of teaching Financial Accounting against the conventional method (lecture) in Government Senior Secondary Schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. A quisi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test was adopted for the study. Four research questions were raised to guide the study while four hypotheses were also formulated to be tested at 0.05 level of significance. A total of 45 SS II students were used for the experiment. The samples were selected using purposive sampling method. The sampled students were taught by the researcher using the two methods. The data collected were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to answer the research questions and to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 percent level of significance. The findings on research questions one and two revealed that demonstration and discovery methods have positive effect on teaching Financial Accounting in SS II students; research question three showed that students performed better when demonstration method is used in teaching Financial Accounting than when discovery method is used; research question four showed that students performed better under demonstration method than in discovery and lecture methods. The test of all the four null hypotheses also showed that there were significant effects of demonstration and discovery methods of teaching Financial Accounting at the SS II level. Therefore, the null hypotheses one and two, that there is no significant effects of demonstration and discovery methods of teaching Financial Accounting were rejected. Null hypothesis three results showed that there was a significant difference between demonstration and discovery methods of teaching Financial Accounting. Therefore the null hypothesis of no significant difference between demonstration and discovery methods of teaching Financial Accounting was rejected. Null hypothesis four results showed that there was a significant difference among the three methods of teaching Financial Accounting at SS II level. Therefore, the null hypothesis of no significant difference among the effect of demonstration, discovery and lecture methods of teaching Financial Accounting in SS II level was rejected. Based on the findings, it was concluded that demonstration method of teaching Financial Accounting had more effect than discovery and lecture teaching methods. It was recommended that teachers teaching Financial Accounting at the Senior Secondary School in Kaduna state should adopt demonstration method in teaching the subject.