Senior Secondary School Biology Teachers’Perception of their Needs in Kwara State

Perception of human needs have important consequences on human and their output. Teachers’ needs if properly taken care of will increase their output. The study assessed senior secondary school biology teachers` perception of their needs in Kwara State, Nigeria. Purposive and Stratified random sampling techniques were used to select two hundred and fifty (250) biology teachers from the three senatorial districts in the state. A questionnaire was prepared, validated and used for collection of data from the biology teachers. Descriptive statistics in form of frequency counts and mean were used to rank the needs of biology teachers in order of most prevalent needs and Chi-square statistical tools were used to analyze the data collected. Two research questions and four hypotheses were raised and tested. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between perceptions of teachers` on their academic needs based on gender and that male biology teachers want more of academic needs than their female counterparts. Based on the result of this study, it is recommended among others that efforts should be geared towards providing more academic needs for males and encouraging female biology teachers on academic needs. Also, Government should sponsor biology teachers to attend workshop, seminars, and conferences at local, state and international level.

Keywords – Biology, Needs, Nigeria, Perception, Teachers