This study assessed availability and utilization of biology equipment/materials in Ekiti State Senior Secondary School Biology lessons. The study specifically examined the extent to which school location affects the availability and utilization of Biology laboratory materials for practical activities.The study adopted the descriptive research design of the survey type. The population of the study comprised of 19,603 Senior Secondary School II (S.S.S2) students and 378 Biology teachers in all 189 Public Secondary Schools in Ekiti State. The sample for this study were 490 respondents, comprising 450 Students and 40 teachers randomly selected from 18 secondary schools using multi-stage sampling technique. Three set of instruments tagged ‘Biology Teacher Activities Questionnaire (BTAQ)’, ‘Biology Student Activities Questionnaire (BSAQ)’ and ‘Biology Equipment/Materials Checklist (BEC)’ were used for the study. The three instruments BTAQ, BSAQ and BEC were validated by experts. Also the reliability of the three instruments BTAQ, BSAQ and BEC yielded reliability coefficients of 0.87, 0.79 and 0.68 respectively. The data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages and means were used to answer research questions while the inferential statistics involving t-test statistics was used to test the hypothesis, the hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance.The findings of the study showed that facilities for Biology practical activities were available in schools moderately. It was also found that the utilization of available facilities for Biology practical activities in schools was moderate. It was found that there was no significant difference between availability and utilization of materials for practical activities in rural and urban schools. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that government in collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) should ensure that resources are provided in the laboratory for effective teaching- learning process. Also, periodic seminars and workshops should be organized for Biology teachers in order to enhance their effective utilization of facilities for Biology practical.
This study focused on the effect of drill and practice instructional strategies on students’ mathematical skills in Physics. The pretest posttest control group quasi-experimental research design was employed. The sample size for this study was sixty five (65) Senior Secondary School II physics students was used in this study. Physics Mathematical Skills Test of twenty (20) items multiple choice type questions was used to collect the data. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analysed the data collected. The findings of the study revealed that there was no significant effect of the treatment on students’ mathematical skills and there was also no significant effect of gender on students’ mathematical skills in physics. Based on the findings of the study, it was therefore recommended that Physics teachers, though drill and practice instructional strategy has no effect on students mathematical skills, should endeavour to employ drill and practice strategy with conventional method in the teaching and learning process due to its advantages.
The study investigated the attitudes of Biology teachers and students toward conservation of natural resources in Ekiti State. The participants for this study were 50 Biology teachers and 100 Biology students. The selection was based on purposive sampling technique which involved 10 secondary schools. Data collected from teachers' and students on conservation of Natural Resources Questionnaire were analyzed using frequency counts, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test.The findings indicated that both teachers and students had a good knowledge of natural resources conservation concepts. The attitudes of both teachers and students point more to positive than negative. On a general note, the teachers had higher mean scores than the students indicating that teachers tended to have more favourable attitudes than the students toward natural resources conservation. It is recommended therefore, that the Federal and State environmental protection agencies should continue to make schools their principal focus in their bids to create, promote and sustain public awareness of the importance of natural resources conservation to mankind. Keywords: Attitude, Conservation, Natural resource. IntroductionEarth is the only place in the universe known to sustain life through its life support system and essential ecological process. The maintenance of such processes and system is a necessity for all societies, regardless of their stage of development. In the beginning man was endowed with natural environmental resources which include wildlife, clean water, air, soil, forest and everything else which was placed in the care of man by God. Our natural environments as created by God are orderly, stable, pure and supportive of flora and fauna in an interdependent manner (Egu, 1993).Tropical forest alone form the most diverse and complex ecosystem on earth. A virtual power house of evolution, a natural supermarket, a rich reservoir of biodiversity, containing 40% of all living species. The forest provides us with food, water, medicine, shelter and new types of energy sources. They form an essential part of the complex web of life on and around our planet. These natures given resource in our natural environments are so dispensable to the daily lives and needs of people on earth that one could hardly think of survival without them. There is empirically based evidence to show that human beings are destroying the natural resources at a rate detrimental to their continues survival on the planet. The situation is further aggravated in recent time by growth of human population and its various needs as wells as scientific and technological advancement degradation.Our forests are being ravaged every year by agricultural expansion, dispossession of large expanse of land for urbanization, industrialization, indiscriminate bush burning, uncontrolled logging and over exploitation of fuel wood. Nest (1991) reported that Nigeria's land, water, atmosphere, vegetation, wildlife, population and culture have been and are still being degrad...
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