EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED FIELD TRIP: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Abstract

Field trips are an opportunity for an enriching, educational, entertaining, and hands-on experience for children in the ‘real world.’ Field trips provide an opportunity for students to learn key skills which are tough to impart in a school environment. It provides first hand experiences with meaningful transfer of learning. Schools organise field trips. Schools should ensure maximum learning of students by the field trips. But question arises how? Will it be possible if the students are let free to visit the places?  In this respect the present study was an attempt by the investigators to study the effectiveness of structured and unstructured field trips to explore the displays in the fun with science gallery of National Science Centre, Delhi. Effectiveness of structured and unstructured field trip was seen in terms of mean gain scores of students. Study indicates that structured field trip significantly enhanced mean gain scores of students who were in the experimental group.