Significance of the Study

This research study is intended to measure the attitudes of

pre-service and in-service teachers at Benguet State University,
to be able to assess if educators are ready to adapt to non-
physical laboratories as an alternative to the science labs. This
study will help current and future educators to assess the
familiarity of pre-service and in-service science teachers with
the facets of virtual laboratories (e.g., simulations,
gamification, VR spaces). On whether or not to adapt a virtual
lab as technology that may be innovatively applied to close the
gap and overcome some of the lab restrictions and limitations on
the current learning situation, It could be used to study and
compare the learners' degrees of engagement with virtual and
physical laboratories, which shall be the basis for future
studies.

Attitude assessment of pre-service and in-service teachers

toward non-physical laboratories could also improve teachers in
preparation for the curriculum program design and implementation.
Examining science teachers’ attitudes could assist in determining
the value of experience and adjustments to training/procedures
during the teaching sessions. The attitude measurement regarding
non-physical labs is helpful in finding the right approach to
enhance the science teaching process.

This study can offer a paradigm for merging virtual and

actual labs as well as a different approach to the integration of
laboratories. and to investigate pre-service and in-service
teachers’ perceptions of the relative merits of using virtual
labs that is helpful to advance understanding of alternative
strategies in employing laboratory classes and activities at
Benguet State University.

This research study can provide a kind of in-depth study

that will be advantageous and helpful in the Science Laboratory
teaching methods and enhancing the learning process. That may be
used in many attitude-related studies today to make a positive
contribution to encouraging more suitable techniques to be
adopted more widely in other school departments.