Improving Drawing Skills of Senior Secondary School Biology Students through Home-Assignment Method: A Study of Selected Schools in Sokoto South Local Government, Nigeria

The study investigated the effect of Home-Assignment Method in improving drawing skills of Senior Secondary School Biology Students in some selected schools in Sokoto South local government, Sokoto state, Nigeria. The study answered two research question and tested two hypotheses. Quasi-experimental design was employed with a sample of 165 SS II students from two selected secondary schools. Experimental group comprises of 86 student who were given home assignment to draw some biological drawing at the end of every lesson. Control on the other hand consist of 79 students who were not given assignment throughout the study. The instrument used in this study is Biological Drawing Achievement Test (BDAT) with reliability coefficient of 0.71. Data obtained through BDAT were analysed using descriptive statistics to answer research questions and t-test to test hypotheses with the aid of SPSS. It was discovered that, home assignment improve drawing ability of students in biology and coverage of course content in good time. It was recommended among others that students should be engaged with home assignment to provide them with the opportunity to practice drawings of biological diagrams