Authors: Mann Dauda Kori, Professor Grace O. Momoh, Professor Longbap Nanram Bitrus
Journal Article | Publish Date: 01/June/2024
The study investigated effects of friendly learning environment therapy on secondary students’ attitude towards sustainable education in Bogoro Local Government Area, Bauchi State, Nigeria. 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 of Students Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ)”that was adopted “. This present study SAQ had Cronbach Alpha Reliability Index of 0.939 which also confirms the internal consistency of the instrument to be used for this study. The result revealed that before intervention both groups had higher negative attitude before intervention and after intervention experimental group had reduced negative attitude mean scores making them to have positive attitude to schools than those in the control groups. And that majority of the 45.9% of the female and 32.8% of the male had positive Attitude towards School Safety than those in the control group after intervention. In addition, there was a significant Posttest attitude mean scores of senior secondary II students exposed to Friendly Learning Environment Therapy (FLET) in Bogoro Local Government Area. While the adjusted R squared value of .177 which means that 17.7 percent of the variation in the dependent variable which is attitude is explained by variation in the treatment using Friendly Learning Environment Therapy (FLET), while the remaining 82.3% is due to other factors not included in this study.The study recommends that Secondary School counsellors should organize attitude change seminars on Friendly Learning Environment therapy.
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