American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This experimental study examined NCNE Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI)-Radio School in Achieving Literacy, Numeracy and Life Skills among Nomadic Primary One Pupils in North-West, Nigeria. These three subjects form the variables and therefrom drew the objectives to establish differences in mean scores obtained by gender. Test items developed from the radio schoolwere administered. Out of the 30 radio lessons for primary one, six were purposively selected for the experiment in line with the spiral nature of the curriculum and in tandem with learning principle of simple to complex. The outcome in literacy,life skills and numeracy tests established no significant difference in the performance of the two genders suggesting that the programme was gender friendly. The study recommends that the governments should establish an AM Band Station to explore the use of radio to increase access, ensurequality and reduce out of school children in the Northern-West, Nigeria.