Examination Of The Biology Textbook Of Class-IX By Board Of Secondary Education Odisha: The Ideas Of The Science Teachers

Abstract

This research aims to examine the physical and academical aspect of biology textbook for class-IX of Board of Secondary Education Odisha. The opinion of biological science teacher has been studied in this research. The present study is based on qualitative research techniques. Three focus group discussion has organised in order to collect the opinion of science teachers of Odisha regarding the pros and cons of biological science text book. The results show that he introduction of this chapters are not satisfactory, the pictures given in this chapters are small in size, not colourful, blurred and labelling is not cleared and not attracted by the students. and some important misconceptions, which can affect the learning, are found in biology textbook of class-IX.