RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEARNING STYLES AND GENDER AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY STUDENTS IN JIGAWA STATE, NIGERIA

¹Ado Gambo Maruta, ²Safyanu Shuaibu Sara, ³ Yusuf I.Z.

¹Jigawa State Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, Dutse-Jigawa State

²Department of Educational Foundations, Abubakar T/Balewa University, Bauchi

³Department of Science Education, Abubakar T/Balewa University, Bauchi

Email: marutaado03@gmail.com, ssara068@yahoo.com, yusuf@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between cognitive style, and gender amount senior secondary school biology student in Jigawa State, Nigeria. Three objectives and three Hypotheses guided the study. Correlation survey was employed as the design for the study. Group embedded figure test (GEFT) was used as instrument for data collection.  .216 student selected by proportionate random sampling were as subject for the study. The findings revealed that, cognitive styles of filed dependence and filed neutral were significantly related to gender. The study recommends that, efforts should be made to improve secondary school students’ cognition by teachers employing variety of learning content presentation methods.