Abstract
The study assessed the relationship between biology teachers' level of creativity and academic performance of secondary school students in Anambra state. Creativity in biology education relates to the processes and particularly the personal and thinking skills that children can develop which will support deep levels of learning. It is the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful. Two research questions were answered using correlation coefficient, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and one null hypothesis tested using one-way ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlational survey design. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 77 biology teachers from 21 public schools Awka Education Zone of Anambra State, Nigeria. Biology Teachers Level of Creativity in teaching Biology (BTLCTB) was the instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by experts and reliability was established at 0.93 using Cronbach's Alpha. Result of the findings revealed that the level of creativity of a biology teacher determines how effectively he/she teach, the ability to produce original materials, flexibility in teaching, quality of ideas and adequate elaboration in the classroom with innovative skills and strategy shows the level of creativity of a biology teacher, and biology teachers with these qualities are classified as teachers with high level of creativity. Recommendations among others is that biology teachers should be encouraged to be creative in classroom, as their level of creativity will not only make their lesson interesting, but will also motivate the students for better performance.
Highlights
Biology is a creative subject and teachers need to be prepared to present it in more varied ways, including being prepared to give students room to explore
The failure of the teachers to devise creative means of enriching the class is one of the reasons why the lesson of biology is ever becoming a subject of discussion among students, and leads to poor performance, whenever they sit for examination that has to do with biology [6]
Such teachers are supposed to be with substantial amount of American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics 2020; 6(4): 71-75 knowledge that is capable of making them successful in the process of their delivery in the classroom
Summary
Biology is a creative subject and teachers need to be prepared to present it in more varied ways, including being prepared to give students room to explore. It is an undisputable fact that an adequate competent and practically oriented biology teachers is an essential ingredient for biology teaching [10]. Such teachers are supposed to be with substantial amount of American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics 2020; 6(4): 71-75 knowledge that is capable of making them successful in the process of their delivery in the classroom. This was further noted by [1] that one of the characteristics of good teachers is that, they possess a substantial amount of specialized creative knowledge that nourishes pedagogical content knowledge, which they use to generate ideas for effective teaching
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