SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOLOGY IN CALABAR SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA

Ihe study examined School Environmental variables and Students Academic Achievement in Biology in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State. three research purpose, three research questions and three research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study, The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study comprises all the 683 SSII biology students in all the eight (8) public secondary schools in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, simple random sampling technique was adopted for the study with a sample size of 342 Ss] biology students using Taro Yamane formula to determine the sample size for the study. The instrument titled School Environment Questionnaire (SEQ) and Biology Achievement Test (BAT) were used for the study. The Biology Achievement test was subject to face validity with a 20 item questions submitted to two lecturers, one in the University of Cross River State, Crombach’s alpha analysis was used to determine the internal consistency for biology Achievement Test (BAT) which yielded a reliability coefficient of .74 mean and standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed a significant relationship between availability of laboratory facilities and students academic achievement in Biology. There is a significant relationship between School instructional tools and students academic achievement in Biology and there is also a significant relationship between availability of library facilities and students Academic Achievement in Biology. The researcher recommends among other things that teachers should be trained on the effective use of instructional tools to maximize their impact on students learning.