The study assessed the factors influencing lecturers' adoption and integration of biological software packages (bsp) in the Teaching and Learning of biology in Colleges of Education in South Eastern Nigeria, particularly Anambra and Enugu.The research design was descriptive survey research design.The study was guided by three research questions and two null hypotheses.The population of the study was 60, which consisted of lecturers from all the government colleges of Education in Anambra and Enugu; 10 from Enugu state college of Education Technical (Escet), 17 from Federal college of Education, Eha-Amufu, 23 from Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze and 10 from Nwafor Orizu College of Education Nsugbe.All the subjects were used because the population of study was small.The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire.To ensure the validity of the instrument the researcher submitted the questionnaire to two experts in biology and measurement and evaluation, in Nsugbe and Eha-amufu.The reliability coefficient was established as 0.72 using testretest method.Mean and standard deviation was used to answer the three research questions, while chi-square was used to answer the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.The findings of this study among others showed that inadequate training, seminars, workshops and conferences for lecturers on the use of bsp hinders lecturer's adoption and integration of bsp in teaching biology.Also the improvement of the computer laboratories in biology department improves the use of bsp in teaching and learning of biology.A recommendation made among others was that enough time should be allocated for the use of bsp in biology time table.
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