ABSTRACT
The study investigated the effect of field trip method on student achievement in dekiwa local government area of kogi state. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the effect of field trip method on students’ academic achievement in dekiwa local government area of kogi state, effect of field trip method on students academic achievement in Urban and rural experimental schools in the study area, effect of field trip method on student’s retention ability among senior secondary schools in dekiwa local government area of kogi state, and the effect of field trip method on retention level of urban and rural experimental schools students in the study area. An experimental design which utilized Pre-test-Post-test Control Group design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of 200 SS1 students from selected secondary schools in dekiwa local government area of kogi state. The ten schools were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was taught using field trip method while the control group was taught by lecture method. A stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the sample from the 10 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. 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 method favoured the experimental group in Biology. The study further confirmed that field trip method favoured urban experimental group. One of the major recommendations made is that Government should make the use of field trip teaching method compulsory schools.
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