STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES AND AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO STATE

The paper assessed the relationship between students’ performance in Social Studies and usage of instructional media in Junior Secondary Schools in Kano State. The study adopted correlation research design. The target population for this study was two thousand eight hundred and eighty eight (2,888) Social Studies teachers in public Junior Secondary Schools in Kano State. Multi stage sampling technique was used for this study. Purposive sampling method was used in selecting respondents from thirty five (35) local government areas. 614 Social Studies teachers in public schools in Kano State were used for this study. Four scale Likert questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents. The instrument was subjected to a pilot test using Cronbach Alfa Reliability Coefficient to obtain 0.79. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation in answering the research question while using inferential statistics Product Pearson Moment Correlation (PPMC). The result revealed that, there is significant relationship between students’ performance in Social Studies and availability of instructional media in Junior Secondary Schools in Kano State. However, it is recommended that, Teachers of Social Studies at the Junior Secondary School level in Kano State should be oriented on the importance of using instructional media which give room for student-centredness and make the teacher a constructivist instead of objectivist.