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Abstract

This study was set to achieve certain objectives among which are to assess the impact of ‎instructional materials for effective teaching and learning of Economics in senior secondary ‎schools in Yola north. The study adopted survey research design. The area of the study was ‎Yola north, Adamawa state. The target population for this study consisted of 111 senior ‎secondary schools in Yola educational zone Yola north and 1597 teachers out of which only ‎Economics teachers will be sampled. Random sampling technique was used in this study. The ‎researcher randomly picked five secondary schools in urban and five secondary schools in ‎rural. The instrument used in this study was impact of instructional materials questionnaire ‎‎(IIMQ). The questionnaire was subjected to face validation by three (3) experts in the field of ‎educational management, measurement and evaluation. The researcher and two of research ‎assistant (RA’s) administered the questionnaire on both the principals and teachers’. The data ‎collected will be analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions; ‎while the null hypothesis will be analyzed using statistical tool of t-test. All the hypotheses ‎tested at 0.05 level of significance were rejected. Based on the data collected and analysed ‎statistically. Conclusion was made that there is a significant difference between the impact of ‎instructional materials for effective teaching and learning of Economics in senior secondary ‎schools in Yola north. Recommendations are made that Government and non-governmental ‎organisations should sponsor Economics teachers for training in how to use available ‎instructional materials‎.