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The Availability And Utilization Of School Library Resources And Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ETHIOPE EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DELTA STATE]
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The
library helps school teachers achieve the goals of producing
well-informed and prepared students for lifelong education. The full
range of information resources are needed for the school library to
function. This includes helping children develop their reading habits,
improve their reading skills, and study habits. Library facilities
contain information in print and non-print formats such as textbooks,
magazines, indexes, newspapers and magazines, reports, the Internet,
videotapes and diskettes. Connoway and Laurence (2003) have pointed out
that the unavailability of school resources such as library resources
negatively affects the motivation and learning of staff and students.
Maram and Ogun (2002) confirm that the high unavailability of library
resources in most school libraries has a negative impact on the use of
library resources and the academic performance of students in schools.
In other cases, facilities may be available in the library, but users
may not be able to use them because these resources are inaccessible
(Aguolu and Aguolu, 2002). The researcher found that the problem of poor
performance, poor research habits, poor reading skills and learning
habits is more pronounced in schools with poorly equipped libraries,
limited reading times, and meeting the needs of students, hence it
becomes necessary to find out the availability and utilization of school
library resources and academic performance in selected secondary
schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The
main objective of this research was to examine the availability and
utilization of school library resources and academic performance in
selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta
State. Other specific objectives include to:
Find out the school library resources available in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State.
Examine
how regular students utilize available school library resources in
selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta
State.
Find out why students use library resources in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State.
Find
out how the utilization of library resource has impacted academic
performance of students in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East
Local Government, Delta State?
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The following questions provided a guide for this study.
What are the school library resources available in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State?
How
regular do students utilize the available library resources in selected
secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State?
Why do students use school library resources in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local Government, Delta State?
How
has the utilization of library resource impacted academic performance
of students in selected secondary schools in Ethiope East Local
Government, Delta State?
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
The study developed for testing the following hypothesis:
H0: There is no significant positive relationship between utilization of library resources and academic performance of students.
HA: There is a significant positive relationship between utilization of library resources and academic performance of students.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
A
vivid understanding of library resources, its importance and need for
availability and utilization by students as well as the significant role
it places in the academic performance of students would be of immense
relevant to managements of schools, the government, researchers,
students and all the various bodies that comes to play when talking of
library resources and student academic performance. The outcome of the
study will help students to strategize and reconstruct their attitude
regarding the utilization of available library resources in their
schools. It will also push them further to identify the exciting
benefits that comes when school library resources are utilized by
students.
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