Attitude of Teachers and Students Towards Teaching and Learning of Genetics in School of Basic and Remedial Studies Funtua Katsina State Nigeria

Abdurahaman Mahmud, Bashir Ahmad Muhammad, Hadiza Aliyu, Abdullahi Sani

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This study investigated the attitude of teachers and students towards the teaching and learning of Genetics in School of Basic and Remedial Studies Funtua, Katsina State Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of all the 10 Biology teachers and all the 918 biology students of the School of Basic and Remedial Studies, Funtua. The sample of the study were five biology teachers and 115 Biology Students selected through simple random sampling technique by lucky – dip method.  One research question and a null hypothesis tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. The instrument for data collection was Genetic Attitude Teaching Scale (GATS) constructed by the researcher on five points Likert Scale which comprises of 10 items. The instrument was face and construct validated and the internal reliability coefficient was 0.76. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions using the five point scale responses while Z – test statistics was used to test the null hypothesis. Findings of the study revealed that the respondents showed positive attitude towards Genetics teaching and learning because there is no significant difference in the attitude of both the teachers and students towards the teaching and learning of Genetics. Recommendations include among others that both teachers and students should continue to show positive attitude towards the topic for proper teaching and learning of the concept. 


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