The study was designed to investigate the attitudes of student teachers towards teaching practice in Nigerian universities. To direct the study, three research questions and three hypotheses were stated, formulated and tested. The study adopted the survey research design and the population of the study comprised all the students in the faculty of education in Delta State University, Abraka who were on teaching practice. The sample size for the study was two hundred (200) respondents randomly selected from ten purposively sampled schools. Data for the study were collected using researcher’s developed questionnaire.
In analyzing the data collected, the researcher used mean and standard deviation to test the research questions, while t-test statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The data analyzed revealed that students have a positive attitude towards teaching practice. There is no significant difference in the mean ratings of the 300 and 400 level students on the problems facing practical teaching, there is no significant difference between the strategies for improving the attitude of student teachers and that of teachers towards teaching practice and there is no significant difference in the attitude of student teachers in urban schools and the student teachers in rural schools towards teaching practice. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made at the end of the study.
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