Abstract:
The aim of this research was to
find out the importance of
improvisation in teaching Biology in senio
r secondary school students
in S
okoto metr
opolis. T
otal nu
mbers of 31 teachers were used in
this
study; the instrument used for data collection was questionnaires which
were administered personally by the researchers to ten randomly
selected secondary school
s in Sokoto metropolis. T
he method used
for
data analysis was simple percentages
to examine the findings.
Among
the major findings for this is that, there is an adequate instructional
materials for teaching Biology in secondary schools in Sokoto State.
Also there is a great differ
ence between the performance of the students
taught with improvised materials and without any instructional aid.
With these findings, we recommend the teachers to be resourceful so as
to improvise when the original materials are not available.
