Effects of Field Trip Method of Students Academic performance and Retention in Biology in Secondary Schools

The study investigated the Effects of field- trip on Retention and Academic Achievement in Biology among Secondary School Students in Ekiti, Nigeria. An experimental design which utilized Pre-test-Post-test Control Group design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of 2934 SS1 students from nineteen (19) public schools in Ado Ekiti Educational Zone of Ekiti State. Four (4) out of nineteen schools were randomly selected from both urban and rural areas where two schools each were used as experimental and control groups respectively. The experimental group was taught using field trip teaching method while the control group was taught by lecture method. A stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the sample from the four schools and a total of 200 students were selected as sample size from both urban and rural areas. The instruments used for this study were Biology Achievement Test (BAT) with reliability value 0.83 and Biology Retention Test (BRT) with reliability value 0.85 aimed at determining the achievement and retention of the students. Four research questions were stated such as what is the effect of field trip teaching method on students" academic performance in biology in Ado Ekiti educational Zone? And four corresponding hypotheses such as there is no significant difference between the mean scores of the students taught biology using field trip and those taught using lecture method were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. After the data were collected; the research questions were tested with descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and the hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics i.e independent sample test (t-test). The finding of the study showed that the field trip teaching method favoured the experimental group in biology. The study further confirmed that field trip teaching method favoured urban experimental group. One of the major recommendations made is that Government should make the use of field trip teaching method compulsory particularly in the teaching and learning of biology at senior secondary school level.

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