Abstract

This study was designed to determine the use of Video Instructional Package (VIP) and its effect on secondary school students’ interest in Biology concepts in Makurdi Metropolis, Benue State. Two research questions were asked and two hypotheses were formulated and tested. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design of non –randomized pretest-posttest control group type. The population of the study is 2,100 while the sample of 138 SS2 students was drawn from four secondary schools using the multistage sampling technique. In each of the schools, intact classes were randomly assigned to VIP and lecture method. Biology Interest Inventory (BII) was used for the collection of data, validated by five experts, trial-tested, and used for the study. The reliability of BII was determined using Cronbach Alpha and the coefficient obtained was 0.92. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the research hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings of this study revealed no significant difference in the interest rating scores of students taught Biology using VIP and those taught using lecture method. Furthermore, there was no significant difference in the interest of male and female students taught using VIP. It was therefore recommended that Biology teachers in secondary schools should adopt the use of VIP for teaching Biology.