GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

                                                                                              ABSTRACT 

The study sought to determine the influence of fish demonstration farm on the acquisition of psycho-productive skills in fish feeding and disease management by undergraduate students of Agricultural Education in tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State. Two research questions and two research hypotheses guided the study which adopted a descriptive survey design.The population of the study consisted of 268 undergraduate students of tertiary institutions in Akwa Ibom State offering Agricultural Education Programme from where a sample size of 135 was purposively drawn.A psycho-productive skills acquisition structured questionnaire titled “Fish Demonstration Farm and Acquisition of Psycho-Productive Skills Questionnaire (FIDEFAPSQ)” was developed by the researchers to generate data for the study.Thereliability of the instrument was established by using Cronbach alpha and test re-testmethod for estimating the internal consistency of the instrument.Data collected were analysed using mean statistic to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested using independent t-test at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study indicated that students acquired moderate competence level of psycho-productive skills in fish feeding and disease management. Findings further showed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses of male and female undergraduate students of Agricultural Education on the influence of fish demonstration farm on the acquisition of psycho-productive skills in fish feeding and disease management. On the basis of theofindings, it was recommended among others that Agricultural Educationist should select and adopt instructional approaches and strategies that would involve the use of demonstration farms in delivering of course contents to foster skill acquisition in fish feeding and disease management by students.

KEY WORDS: Fish Demonstration Farm, Fish Feeding Skills, Psycho-Productive Skills and Disease Management Skills