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JONAED

JOURNAL OF NIGERIAN ACADEMY OF EDUCATION

ISSN: 2278-095X

EXTENT OF USAGE OF BLENDED LEARNING FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING OF BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA

Ndirika, Maryann C

This study investigated the extent of usage of blended learning teaching approach for the teaching and learning of biology in secondary schools. Survey design was utilised. Nineteen biology teachers and 93 biology students, drawn through simple random sampling, served as sample. Researcher-made structured questionnaire was the instrument of data collection. Mean was used to analyse the data. Results showed that biology teachers are not trained for blended learning and the facilities for blended learning are not adequate. Recommendations are made among which is the need to train secondary school biology teachers on the blended learning teaching approach.