SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON INCLUSION OF KNOWLEDGE BASED ON SEX EDUCATION AND TEACHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS BIOLOGY CURRICULUM IN LOKOJA METROPOLIS

Abstract

The study examined senior secondary students’ perception on inclusion of knowledge based sex education and teachers’ attitude into Biology curriculum in Lokoja metropolis. A descriptive survey design was employed with a target population of all senior secondary Biology students and teachers in Lokoja metropolis. A multi-stage sampling technique was use to involved 150 students and 50 teachers that participated in the study. A researcher developed questionnaires, validated by experts from measurement and evaluation and science education department yielding a reliability coefficient of 8.02 and 0.73 which was used for data collection. Simple percentages and mean were used to answer the research questions. The study found that senior secondary schools students possess good knowledge and perception of sex education and their teachers has good knowledge on how to teach sex education if included in the curriculum by the developers.  The study recommended that sex education should be taught at all levels of education especially secondary level across state and teachers should be trained on regular bases to maintain the tempo.