The study examined the effects of Kolawole Problem Solving and Instructional Simulation strategies on senior secondary school students’ attitude towards Biology in Ondo state, Nigeria. This study adopted a pre-test, post-test, control group quasi experimental design. The population of the study comprised all S.S.S. 2 students offering Biology in all the public secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. The sample consisted of class intact size (students offering Biology) drawn from 6 public secondary schools in Ondo State. The sample was selected using multistage sampling procedure. Students’ Attitude towards Biology Scale (SABS) was used for collecting the data for the study. The face and content validity of SABS were ensured while the internal consistency of the instrument was carried out through a pilot study to determine the reliability of the instrument. The data collected were analysed using Kuder-Richardson (Kr-20) which yielded reliability co-efficient value of 0.86. The study was carried out in three phases namely pre-treatment, treatment and post-treatment.  The data collected through the instruments were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that that the use of KPS and INS enhanced students’ positive attitude towards the learning of Biology than the conventional strategy with INS being the most effective strategy. It was recommended among others that the use of Instructional Simulation (INS) and Kolawole’s Problem-Solving (KPS) strategies should be encouraged in Biology class in secondary schools so as to positively enhance students’ attitude towards the learning of Biology.

Keywords: Kolawole Problem Solving (KPS), Instructional Simulation, Attitude, Biology,

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