Evaluation of Yoruba- Biology Instructional Package on Achievement and Emotional Stability among Secondary School Students in Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract

The paper examined evaluation of Yoruba-Biologyinstructional package on achievement and emotional stability among secondary school students in Kwara State. Two objectives were formulated for the study, two research questions were raised to guide the study and two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research adopted Quasi experimental design (pre-test, post-test and control group design).The population for this study consists of 124,723 with target population of 22,842 senior secondary students registered in the Biology Programme for the session 2022/2023 under the Kwara State Ministry of Education. 12,421 are male while 10,421 are female Biology students. A multi-staged sampling technique was used, the sample size consists of 286 students, 149 for the experimental group and 137 for the control group in a class setting. The validated instrument tagged Biology Achievement Test (BAT) with reliability co-efficient of 0.85 was used to collect data for the study shows that the instrument was reliable. The study revealed that the experimental group had higher mean gain than the control group. It also revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean achievement score of students taught ecology using Yoruba-Biology Instructional package and those taught using lecture method. The study concluded that the use of Yoruba-Biology Instructional Package would in no doubt improve the teaching and learning process in Biology. The study also recommended that teachers in secondary school should be encouraged by the school administrators and management to adopt the use of Yoruba-Biology Instructional Package to complement their teaching. This will enhance their teaching methods and provide them with supplementary materials for teaching.