Attitude of Students and Parents towards Practical Agriculture as perceived by Secondary School Administrators in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nigeria. Journal Of Technical Vocational Education, Training And Research (JOTVETAR)
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This study examined the attitude of students and parents towards practical agriculture as perceived by secondary school administrators in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria. Two research questions were developed and a hypothesis was formulated to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was used for the study, the sample size was twenty six secondary school administrators composed of 14 males and 12 females from twenty six secondary schools. The instrument used for data collection was a modified four point response Likert scale questionnaire that was face validated by three experts. Descriptive statistical techniques (arithmetic mean) were used to analyze the research questions and independent t-test was used to test the null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that students dislike agricultural science, they also prefer to study core science, it is not a major subject for gaining admission into higher institution, while practical agriculture is interesting and fascinating, school farmland is available and parents do not react negatively to their children studying agricultural science. The attitude of students and parents as noted by male and female secondary school administrators do not have any significance difference on their attitudes towards practical agriculture. It is recommended that students should be exposed to modern technology and farm machines, teachers of agricultural science should be creative and innovative in order to attract more students to take the subject; this will help in sustaining student’s interest and improve their perception towards the subject.
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