RELATIONSHIP AMONG STUDENT’S MOTIVATION, BIOLOGY PRACTICAL SKILLS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL IN MUNICIPAL ZONE, KANO, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the Relationship between Student’s Motivation, Biology Practical Skills and Academic Achievement in Senior Secondary School in Kano Municipal Zonal education, Kano State, Nigeria. The study is correlation design. Three objectives, three research questions were stated with three null hypotheses to guide the study, which were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The popula-tion of the study consists of all second year senior secondary School Students offering Biology in Ka-no municipal zonal education. Six (6) Schools were selected by purposive sampling technique total-ing of (1,307), males Students are (641) and (666) are female Students. The instrument used for data collection in the study was direct assessment of Biology practical skills (DABPS), Student’s Motiva-tion test (SMT), and Biology achievement test (BAT). Split half reliability method was used to ascer-tain the reliability of the instrument, and the reliability coefficient (r) of 0.79 was obtained. The data collated were analyzed using descriptive statistics (Mean and standard deviation) to answer all the research questions and inferential statistics ANOVA, to test hypotheses one, two, and three, the find-ings of the study showed that there is significance difference in the level of academic achievement in Biology among senior secondary Schools Students based on Schools. Another finding showed that there is significant relationship between Motivation in Biology practical skills and academic achieve-ment in Biology among secondary Schools Students in Kano municipal zonal education.