Assessment of Secondary School Biology Teachers' Perception, Attitude and Readiness Towards Environmental Sustainability Practices in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigates the perception, attitude and readiness of secondary school biology teachers towards environmental sustainability practices in Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design using quantitative methods to collect and analyse data, ensuring objectivity and reliability in the findings. The population of the study comprised all biology secondary school teachers in Minna, Niger State from both urban and rural secondary schools within Bosso and Chanchaga Local Government Areas (LGAs) which is about 300 biology teachers in these LGAs, distributed across public/private and urban/rural secondary schools. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 169 biology teachers for this study. The study employed a structured questionnaire titled "Questionnaire on biology teachers' perception, attitude and readiness towards environmental sustainability practices (QOBITPARTESP)" to gather information. In determining the reliability of the instrument, the QOBITPARTESP was pilot tested involving 30 biology teachers from schools that are not part of the main study. The scores obtained were analyzed using the Cronbach Alpha statistics and a reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse data using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions. The results indicated that secondary school biology teachers in Niger State Nigeria showed highly positive perception, positive attitude and high level of readiness towards environmental sustainability practices even though there is lack of integration an implementation capabilities like infrastructural developments. Therefore, it was recommended that there should be termly capacity building workshops and seminars with hands-on activities included for effective environmental sustainability practices among secondary school teachers in Niger State, Nigeria.