Impact Of Indigenous Practices On Senior Secondary School Biology Students’ Achievement

This study was carried out to examine the impact of indigenous practices on senior secondary school biology students’ achievement using some selected senior secondary schools in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area as a case study.The study was specifically set to ascertain whether indigenous practices can facilitates effective teaching and learning of biology in secondary school, determine the extent indigenous teaching approach is integrated into the instructional process of biology in secondary school, find out whether the use of indigenous practices can enhance students’ comprehension of biology concepts, find out whether the use of indigenous practices can enhance students’ retention of biology concepts and find out whether the use of indigenous practices can improve students’ academic performance in biology. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study.

The population size comprise of students some selected senior secondary schools in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area. In determining the sample size, the researcher conveniently selected 229 respondents and 210 were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables. While the hypotheses were tested using Chi-square statistical tool. The result of the findings reveals that indigenous practices facilitates effective teaching and learning of biology in secondary school.

Furthermore the result of the findings reveals that the use of indigenous practices improve students’ academic performance in biology. Therefore, it is recommended that teachers should adopt the IKSP approach in teaching biology concepts and even other subjects at all level of education so as to incorporate individual culture into learning. This will help teachers to boost the rate at which learners comprehend biology concepts as well as how much knowledge they can possibly comprehend through it. To mention but a few.