ASSESMENT OF THE AVAILABILITY, ADEQUECY AND UTILISATION OF PRACTICAL BIOLOGY MATERIALS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GOMBE L.G.A OF GOMBE STATE.

ABSTRACT The study sought out to Assess the Availability Adequacy and utilization of Biology practical secondary school in Gombe State, Nigeria. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study. Conceptual reviews dwells on the important areas to show how the availability of the biology laboratories materials affects the students. Related empirical studies were reviewed and it recognized the area that needs resaerch focus, and the gap that this study help in to fill. The study adopted descriptive research design, the study comprise all the 19 public secondary schools in Gombe state. Stratified random sampling technique procedure was used. To determine the sample size research adviser (2006) was used to obtain 346 as the number of respondents from the population. WAEC 2024 Checklist was used as the instrument named (AAUBCL) for data collection. The data were analyzed using simple percentage. That shows that the availability, adequaecy of Biology Practical Materials was low and the utilization of Biology Practical Materials was very low which seriously affects the system. Based on the study the following Recommendations were made, the governments and other stakeholders of the education industry should collaborate to equip public schools with all the necessary and required laboratory equipment to boost students’ interest in science based subjects. The school administrators on their parts should ensure effective utilization of all the available practical materials in order to keep the few available materials functioning. Teachers should be interested in the utilization of laboratory practical materials and seek assistance and training if they lack knowledge on the utilization of these materials as this is seen to help improve on the students learning