EXPERIENTIAL AND OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SECONDARY SCHOOL BIOLOGY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
Adeoye, O.R.
Department of Teacher Education
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
E-mail: funmie16@gmail.com, funmie16@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
The traditional instructional strategy employed by most biology teachers in teaching environment-related concepts have resulted in low learning outcomes. Two strategies have been proved in literature to have make students to display creative and independent thinking when working on projects, writing papers, or participating in classroom discussions. The study, therefore, investigates experiential and observational learning techniques and their effect on secondary school biology students’ attitude towards environmental degradation. This study adopts pretest, posttest, control group, quasi-experimental design. It examined possible effect of experiential and observational learning techniques, gender and mental ability on students’ achievement in environmental degradation in biology. The test population consists of senior secondary school two (SSII) students which were randomly selected from four schools in Ibadan Southwest Local Government and Ido Local Government of Oyo state. From the population of SSII students, the sampled subjects will consist of an intact class in each school. Five instruments was used for the study and they are; Students’ Environmental Degradation Attitude Questionnaire; Student’s Mental Ability Test (SMAT); Teacher instructional guide on the Experiential learning; The Observational learning strategies; and Conventional learning technique. Two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level. Analysis of result was done using ANCOVA. There was significant effect of treatment on students’ attitude to environmental degradation (F(2,168) = 25.83; P<.05). It is recommended that Experiential and observational strategies should be adapted as viable strategies for studying concepts in biology. This will enable students to improve their attitude to environmental degradation.
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