Authors: Mann Dauda Kori, Professor Grace O. Momoh, Professor Longbap Nanram Bitrus
Journal Article | Publish Date: 01/June/2024
The study examined effects of friendly learning environment therapy on secondary students’ School Safety for Sustainable education in Bogoro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Nigeria.. The study raised one research question and formulated five hypotheses that were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study raised two research questions and formulated two hypotheses that were tested at 0.05 level of significance. This research employed quasi-experimental research design specifically, pre-test post-test control group design. The study population comprises of 1,950 Senior Secondary II students situated across the seven local Government Areas of Bauchi South Senatorial district. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 185 students through a face-to-face administration School Safety Questionnaire (SSA)”that was adopted “. This present study SSA had Cronbach Alpha Reliability Index of 0.93 which also confirms the internal consistency of the instrument to be used for this study. The study result shows that before intervention both groups had higher unsafe level and after intervention student in the experimental group feel safer in school than students’ in the control group, and that majority of the 45.9% of the female and 32.8% of the male feel safe than those in the control group. There was a significant Posttest school safety mean scores of senior secondary II students exposed to Friendly Learning Environment Therapy (FLET) in Bogoro Local Government Area. In addition, the adjusted R squared value of -0.521 which means that 52.1 percent of the variation in the dependent variable which is school safety is explained by variation in the treatment using Friendly Learning Environment Therapy (FLET), while the remaining 47.9% is due to other factors not included in this study. The study recommends that Secondary School counselors should train regular teacher friendly learning environment therapy in Bogoro LGA and others.
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