THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL FACILITIES AND STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCHOOL FACILITIES AND STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED
PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS
ABSTRACT
The study
attempted to investigate the relationship between school facilities and
students performance in selected public secondary schools in Lagos State. In
this study relevant related literature review was carried out under
sub-headings.
The research
survey design was used in order to assess the opinions of the respondents with
the use of the questionnaire and the sampling technique.
A total of
120 (one hundred and twenty) respondents were sampled for the study. Two null
hypotheses were formulated and tested in this study, the independent t-test for
hypothesis one and three, while hypotheses was tested using the pearson product
moment coefficient statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance.
At the end
of the analysis, the following results emerged:
(1) Hypothesis one revealed that there is
a significant relationship between facilities and students’ academic
performance in the schools.
(2) Hypothesis two found that there is a
significant difference between the academic performance of students who
attended schools where there are facilities and those whose schools do not have
facilities.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background
to the Study
Facility
means the system which supports the operation of an organisation or an
institution to carry its daily activities and to promote growth and development
in such organisation or institution.
Facility
refers to the entire environment of the school or an organisation, it refers to
both the physical and material resources available to the students and teachers
in the school to facilitate their learning and teaching process. The
classrooms; the libraries and the laboratories for sciences are the three main
areas of facilities identified in the school system or environment. (Onyeji,
1990)
Yeloye
(1990) states that in terms of the availability of the libraries as one of the
school facilities, a great many of our secondary schools have no functional
libraries, and where some libraries are found, there are no new or current
books that are relevant to the current secondary school programmes. In effect
there are no library facilities in most of the secondary schools in Nigeria,
especially in Lagos State.
The
importance and uses of the library cannot be under-rated. Libraries and books
give great assistance to both the teachers and the learners. In a situation
whereby our secondary school students are left with no choice to make their text
books as the only source of knowledge, the danger of exposing them to obsolete
knowledge in old books donated by the British Council several years ago as one
normally finds in the old secondary schools should not be overlooked. According
to Dada (1994), any one who is familiar with secondary school classrooms in
Nigeria, especially in Lagos State, will agree that no meaningful
teaching/learning activities can effectively take place in most of them, even
if teachers are God-sent and the learners are celetial pack of highly
intelligent personalities, the problem is that where there are classrooms, they
are overcrowded to the extent that rooms originally meant for between 30 and 40
students, take between 60 and 80 students with a good number of them sitting on
windows. In this situation, neither the teacher nor the students can move
freely as expected in our secondary school classrooms. This is why many
teachers do not give assignments to such large number of students regularly as
expected. And this has affected students academic performance drastically.
On science
laboraories, Olarewaju (1994) claims that only few schools have science
laboratories which are well equipped to carry out scientific experiments in
courses such as biology, physics, and chemistry. A good number of schools teach
biology or chemistry as if they are non-science subjects without laboratory.
Some other schools which are so during, teach the three branches of science
without laboratories in the hope that they would use other schools, laboratories
during their examinations or compel students to contribute money for purchase
of science equipment through the school Parents Teachers Association (PTA). It
should be noted that the greater failure rate is in science because our schools
lack the essential science to the students but rather, resort to the
theoretical science without the use of laboratory. The contention is that the
nation has been unfair not only to students in our secondary schools but also
to herself. This s because no nation can develop technology through theoretical
teaching of science subjects, under poor educational facilities, no meaningful
teaching and learning can take place, and the normal refrain in the educational
circle is that all is well with our secondary schools.
1.1Statements
of the Problem
The
importance of school facilities or amenities in the development and growth of
the educational sector cannot be overemphasized. Many schools in Nigeria today
do not have certain school facilities that can make the teaching and learning
to be easier and enjoyable to both the teachers and the students.
Often times,
there has been a constant outcry of the inadequate provision or non-provision
of the school facilities, especially, the laboratories, the classrooms
(buildings) and the libraries which are the main school facilities that aid
teaching and learning process, for example due to lack of necessary equipment
in the school, teachers in the science fields find it difficult to experiment
and carryout practical teaching in the school, and the resultant effect is that
most science students fail their science related subjects in the external and
internal examinations.
Due to lack
of provision of libraries, and sufficient classrooms in the school, year after
year, the academic performance of students both in arts and science courses
continued to go down. This is because the teachers are not able to utilise the
instructional materials to present their teaching thoroughly for the better
understanding by the students. Infact the inadequate provision or the
non-availability of school facilities in our secondary schools is what prompted
the investigation of this study.
1.2Purpose
of the Study
The major
purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between school facilities
and students’ academic performance in selected secondary school in Mushin Local
Government Area of Lagos State. Other objectives of the study include:
(1) To find out whether there is
relationship between school facilities and students’ academic performance.
(2) To find out whether there is no
adequate provision of facilities in our secondary schools.
(3) To identify the causes of inadequate
provision of school facilities in our secondary schools.
(4) To proffer solutions to the problems of
inadequate provision of facilities in the secondary schools.
1.3Research
Questions
These
research questions were raised for the study.
(1) Is there any relationship between
school facilities and students’ academic performance?
(2) Are the facilities in our secondary
schools adequate or inadequate?
(3) How can we identify the causes of
inadequate provision of facilities in our schools?
(4) To what extent can the problems of
inadequate facilities in the schools be solved?
1.4Research
Hypotheses
The
following hypotheses were formulated for the study:
(1) There will be no significant
relationship between facilities and students academic performance in the
schools.
(2) There will be no significant difference
between the academic performance of students who attended schools where there
are facilities and those who schools do not have facilities.
1.5Significant
of the Study
This study
will be beneficial to the following people:
(1) It is hoped that students will benefit
from this study because they would be able to have proper insight and
understanding that non provision of infrastructures in the secondary schools
will adversely affect their academic performance.
(2) Teachers it is hoped would, through the
study come to terms with the fact that the provision of adequate infrastructures
will help both students and teachers to facilitate the teaching and learning
processes.
(3) The school authorities would utilize
the findings and recommendations of this study to find solution to the problem
of inadequate provision of infrastructures in our secondary schools. They would
through this study understand better the effect of inadequate provision of
infrastructures in our schools, on the teachers work performance and the
academic performance of students.
(4) It would be of benefit to parents
because it will enable them to understand the effect of inadequate
infrastructures on academic and work performance of both students and teachers.
With the finding and recommendations of this study parents would help the
school authorities to find lasting solutions to the problem of inadequate
provision of infrastructures in our schools.
(5) The society will benefit from the study
because when there is adequate provision of infrastructure in the schools
teachers would work better to produce better crop of students for the society.
1.6Scope and
Limitations of the Study
The study
will cover the relationship between school facilities and students academic
performance in Mushin Local Government area of Lagos State. Sourcing of good
materials for literature review and other information collection posed a
hindrance to the study.
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