ATTITUDE OF STUDENT TEACHERS TOWARDS TEACHING PRACTICE EXERCISE IN DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY, ABRAKA
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the attitude of student teachers towards the teaching practice exercise carried out in the Faculty of Education, Delta State University, Abraka. Five (5) research questions and three (3) null hypotheses were raised to provide focus for the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in carrying out the research while the availability sampling technique was employed in selecting one hundred and sixty (160) students from eight (8) Departments who were on teaching practice in the 2022/2023 academic session. The main instrument used for data collection consisted of a 40 - items questionnaire which served as an instrument for both the 300 Level and 400 Level students. Both descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test) were used to analyse the data collected through the administration of the research instrument. A careful analysis of the data revealed that: students’ attitude towards teaching practice in Delta State University is generally positive; there was no statistically significant difference between the attitudes of male and female student teachers towards teaching practice; lastly, there was no statistically significant difference in attitude between the 300 Level and 400 Level student teachers towards teaching practice. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that; Faculties of Education should have microteaching laboratories to help student teachers preparing for teaching practice acquire the rudimentary skills required for effective teaching and that teaching practice handbook should be made available to guide the students to have a uniform method of writing lesson plans and lesson notes. Moreover, rules and regulations of teaching practice should be outlined in the handbook provided to enable students have successful teaching practice exercise.
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