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(Received 16, May 2019; Revision Accepted 31, July 2019)
ABSTRACT
This paper investigated the utilization of electronic instructional materials on secondary school three (SS3) biology students in Calabar, Education Zone Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted Expost facto-research design. A hypothesis was formulated to guide the study, and relevant literature reviewed in line with the purpose of the study. A sample of 490 students was used for the study. A checklist and achievement test were instruments used for data collection. Data generated were analyzed using one-way analysis of variance and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that utilization of electronic instructional materials significantly influence students' academic achievement in biology. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that government should ensure effective distribution of electronic types of instructional materials to all public secondary schools presenting candidates for SSCE and NECO to enhance effectual teaching and learning of biology.
KEYWORDS: academic achievement, biology, electronic instructional materials, students
INTRODUCTION
The development of every sector of the modern world is hinged on the advancement in science and technology. It is on realization of this that nations are striving to increase their knowledge and to become more scientifically and technologically efficient. The overriding aim of science education is to educate people for career in this domain to create a scientifically literate population, capable of thinking critically and contributing meaningfully to the democratic decisions about the development.
Biology is one of the Science subjects offered in Nigerian Secondary Schools and is very important to students in science and science related areas. One of the objectives of teaching and learning the subject as contained in the National Policy on education (2013) is to develop in learners, adequate laboratory and field skills. Its study as a discipline is capable of performing vital roles in the economic, industrial and public life of the learners. This results to good health, wealth creation, pest and disease control, human development, agriculture and lots more (Ibe & Ukpai, 2013).
Despite the relevance of biology to humanity, it is observed with regrets that students' biology achievement in internal examinations have been dwindling steadily. Moreover, the WAEC chief examiner's reports are evidence that students' achievement in biology in Nigeria has been persistently poor,...