Effects of Out-door Activities on Students’ Attitude towards Physics in Secondary Schools

AWODUN ADEBISI OMOTADE; JEGEDE S.A

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss5.369

Authors

AWODUN ADEBISI OMOTADE

College of Education, Nigeria
JEGEDE S.A

Ekiti State University, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss5.369

Keywords:

Out-door, out-door activities, attitude and students’ attitude

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of out-door activities on students’ attitude towards learning of Physics in Senior Secondary School Physics in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research design adopted in the study was Pretest-Posttest Quasi-experimental. The sample for the study was 150 Senior Secondary One (SSI) Physics students (this sample was divided into the experimental and control groups in ratio 1: 1 i.e. 75 in each group), selected through the multistage sampling technique from a total population of 7,852 SS I students offering Physics in all the 184 public Senior Secondary Schools in Ekiti State. The instrument used to collect relevant data from the subjects was Physics Attitudinal Scale (PAS). The reliability of the instrument was determined through the split-half method with the reliability coefficient of 0.83. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The data collected were analysed using inferential statistics of t-test and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The results of the analyses showed that there was significant difference in the attitude of students to Physics in the experimental and control groups in favour of experimental group. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that non-conventional teaching approaches such as using out-door activities, should be introduced into the teaching of Physics in the nation’s secondary schools to reinforce the hitherto adopted conventional teaching method and Physics teachers should be encouraged to make use of these new teaching approaches.

Author Biographies

AWODUN ADEBISI OMOTADE, College of Education, Nigeria

Department of Physics
JEGEDE S.A, Ekiti State University, Nigeria

College of Education, Department of Curriculum Studies

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