Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2008.173.176EmoreE. EbeyeO.A. Odion-ObomhenseH.K. IgbigbiP.S. 1200881Hand dominance or handedness has been associated with a lot of other conditions; in the case of left handedness, most of them deleterious. Left handedness was also thought to adversely affect learning. In this study, self-assessment questionnaires were filled by 606 primary school pupils. Their ages ranged between 6 and 16 years, with a mean age of 11.1 and a mode of 12 years. The questionnaires were analysed using Chi-square test on SPSS. The handedness of the respondents was associated with learning, using their graded performance in class. There were 537 (94.9%) right-handers, thirty (5.1%) non-right handed children. A significant proportion of the non-right handed respondents performed above their class average. Handedness was thus found to significantly affect learning (p< 0.05).]]>Adeyemi-Doro, H.O.,19935125127Annett, M.,1983741732Anonymous,20052005Ashton, G.C.,198112125147Batheja, M. and I.C. McManus,1985296368Bentley, D. and R. Stainthorp,19932711Bower, B.,1985127263263Burt, C.,1937Chapman, L.J. and J.P. Chapman,19876175183Clark, M.M.,1957Coren, S. and D.F. Halpern,199110990106Dacey, J.S.,1989Dax, M.,186511259260DeKay, J.T.,1979Didia, B.B. and P.S. Igbigbi,200422730Fleminger, J.J., R. Dalton and K.F. Standage,197715471473Geschwind, N. and P.O. Behan,19827950915100Geschwind, N. and A.M. Galaburda,198542428-458521-552Kuhlemeier, K.V.,199181513513Lalumière, M.L., R. Blanchard and K.L. Zucker,2000126575592Lansky, L.M., H. Feinstein and J. Peterson,198826465477McCartney, G. and P. Hepper,1999418386Newland, G.A.,198153787792Porac, C., S. Coren and P. Duncan,19802173187Randerson, J.,20012001Springer, S.P. and G. Deutsch,19975th Edn.,Stellman, S.D., E.L. Wynder, D.J. DeRose and J.E. Muscat,19977167171Sunseri, A.B.,198255235238Szeszko, P.R., G.M. Madden and J.M. Piro,199733579584Tan, L.E.,198356867874