ABSTRACT
This study was conducted to investigate the influence of instructional materials for the effective teaching and learning of history in Secondary Schools in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area in Edo State.
In the course of the study, data were collected by means of questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of two sections, Section A and Section B. Section A sought for demographic data of the respondents, while section B consist of items meant to elicit information based on issues raised in the research question examined, the questionnaire was administered to 200 respondents.
The researcher thereby stressed that instructional materials is very important and therefore should be in any school setting. Furthermore, she also stressed that instructional materials will increase the interest of the students in learning, a development that will enable the child to become a useful person to the society. In conclusion, it was recommended that Teachers should be encouraged to commit themselves into the effective use of instructional materials in all their history lessons, teacher been the main vessels through all the planned and unplanned activities can be achieved should realize the need for improvisation, teachers should be properly trained and retrained in the area of educational technology in order to expose them to the modern technological apparatus and how to manipulate their functions, there should be a form where the history teachers will meet periodically to update their knowledge and access the effectiveness of their teaching,using the methods of instructional and educational technology as applicable to the content of history at the secondary schools and schools administrators should make effort in providing of instructional materials and monitor teachers in process of teaching and learning.
