TEXT BOOKS AND STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN SOCIAL STUDIES IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OBUDU LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF CROSS RIVER STATE.

CURRICULUM PERSPECTIVE

Cyril K. Evey; Sunday Eyo Abu and Peter Obi

¹Department of General Studies, Education, Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River

²Department of Educational Foundation, Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River

³Department of Social Studies, Federal College of Education, Obudu, Cross River

ABSTRACT

The paper examines Textbooks and Students Performance in Social Studies in Junior Secondary Schools in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State. Curriculum perspectives. The study used exfacto-design and made use   20 item questionnaire to measure the 2 variables, (Textbooks) two research questions and two hypotheses were used for the study comprise 200 hundred students and a simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 students and 50 teachers from five junior secondary schools. Two statistical instrument textbooks and students performance in social studies questionnaire t-test and multiple regression were used to analysis the data. The result show the null hypotheses were significant that textbooks influence students academic performance in Social studies, hence play a significant role in teaching and learning in Junior SecondarySchools.