Attitude Of Senior Secondary School Teachers Towards Education Field Trip In Biology
[ILORIN METROPOLIS]

Research Hypothesis
One main hypothesis and two operational hypotheses were formulated these are
Main Hypothesis
H0: there is no significant relationship between teacher and student attitude to field trip in biology in senior secondary school in Ilorin metropolis
Operational Hypothesis
Ho1: there is no significant relationship between teacher attitude to fieldtrip in biology and student academic performance in secondary school in ilorin metropolis
Ho2: there is no significant relationship between student attitude to fieldtrip in biology and student academic performance in senior secondary school in Ilorin.
Significance of the Study
            The study significant in the sense that it would help to expose various school teacher and student in Ilorin metropolis to the attitude of teacher toward educational fieldtrip as a panacea for effecting teaching and learning.
    In addition, the study would try to re-examine and bring to focus the relevance of fieldtrip to biology in the discovery and development of natural and artificial resources of the nation. Therefore, the research work is very significant to school administrators, teacher, school proprietors, government, researchers and student of biology.
Government are the custodian of education enterprises in the country, they often support the view that, Fieltrips contributes to the development of students into civilized young men and women who posses more knowledge about art, have stronger critical thinking skills and display higher levels of tolerance.
Educational fieldtrips exposes students to places that are not commonly or normaly visited by their family, thereby helps them to appreciate the relevance and importance of what they learn in the classroom.
Many teachers have come to agree that exposing students to an actual  and hands-on learning experience like fieldtrip is an effective method of teaching.
Researchers has shown that fieldtrips expose students to new experience and can increase interest  and engagement in science regardless of prior interest in a topic.(kiesiel, 2011).
The school  Administrators create instructional resources for use during fieldtrips. They encourage, train and mentor teachers and students which  facilitates an effective teaching and learning .  
School proprietors fully discharged their responsibilitites for educational standards, financial planning, safeguarding, welfare health and safety during fielatrip and after fieldtrip in biology.
 The find would draw the attention of secondary school teacher and student, as well as a motivational factor that would help to develop the right attitude toward educational fieldtrip. The study would equally serve as a basis for functional studies to other researchers who may want to investigate on the relationship that exist between teachers and student attitude on education fieldtrip.
Scope of the Study
The research work is designed to  investigate the attitude of teacher and student toward educational fieldtrip in Ilorin metropolis, senior secondary schools . The study is limited to some selected senior secondary school in Ilorin metropolis which comprise Ilorin west, Ilorin east, Ilorin south Asa and Moro local government areas.
Definitions of Term
The following terms were defined as used in the study:
ATTITUDE: this refers to the expression of favour or disfavor of teacher and students of senior secondary school toward fieldtrip.
FIELDTRIP: An organized biological lesson that take place outside the regular classroom in order to give students opportunity to observe, record and interpret what they have visualized by themselves.
ATTITUDE OF FIELDTRIP:  A state of preparedness or perception orientation for effective fieldtrip operation by both teachers and students of biology in senior secondary schools.
SCHOOLS: The senior secondary schools session ranging from ss1 to ss3
TEACHERS: These are professionally trained personal that transmit knowledge, skills and values to students so that the latter can gain certain concept, idea, and experience in the teaching and learning of biology.
STUDENT: These are people who enrolled, attend, undertake and formally engaged in learning of biology as a course of  learning  in senior secondary schools.
BIOLOGY: This is a subject that is concerned with study of life and living organism in senior secondary schools.