ABSTRACT
Instructional resources in contemporary education has the potentials to accelerate, enrich, and deepen skills, and provide opportunities for concentration on the lesson and arouse the interest of learners by enabling them to actively participate in the lesson. It has been observed that since the introduction of electronic instructional resources in teaching and learning processes, Social Studies Education is yet to comply adequately with this trend of teaching, this is due to the fact that most of teachers and students in social studies are not computer literate. Even in cases where the teachers are literate, they find it challenging to alter the traditional techniques of teaching in favour of using instructional resources. Basically, the thrust of this experiment centred on the impact of instructional resources on the academic performance of JSS learners of Social Studies in Katsina State. Thus, the quasi-experimental design was adopted for the study and a sample of 400 was selected through the simple random sampling. The SPSS version 16 was used to analyse the t-test statistic, and the level of significance for determining the statistical significance of the study was placed at 0.05 with degree of freedom 118 for hypothesis one and 58 for hypotheses two, three and four. The result showed among other findings that there is significant difference between academic performance of male and female social studies learners when using instructional resources in teaching them. The result of findings revealed further that there is significance difference between rural and urban Social Studies learners when using instructional resources in teaching Social Studies. Also the experiment affirmed that there is significant difference between the academic performance of private and public social studies learners. When using instructional resources in teaching social studies. The findings also indicated that there is significant difference between academic performance of JSS II and JSS III Social Studies learners when using instructional resources in teaching of social studies. Finally the study encouraged using ofresources in teachingSocial Studies and also called for the training and retraining of Social Studies teachers in the use of instructional resources in teaching of Social Studies.