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Learner Opinion Of Schools Experience And Their Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF ECONOMICS IN ABEOKUTA NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT]
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Learners Opinion of School Experience and their Academic Performance
The term school experience includes the site, the building, the layout and other infrastructures. It however embraces permanent and semi-permanent structures which include items such as machines, laboratory equipment, the chalk boards and office assistants’ tools such as brooms and cleaning materials.
Oyedeji (2000) asserted that the quality of education that our children receive bear direct relevance to the availability or lack of physical facilities and overall atmospheres in which learning take place. The classroom environment has a powerful influence on learning and learners/children opinion of the environment. Equally influence their behavior. The most successful learners perceived the classrooms experience as more afflictive and task focused perceived their teachers to be more trusting caring, supportive and perceived the class to be more teachers controlled and competitive.
Oyesola (2000), opined that are physical experience of the school enhances the creation of a feeling of pride in the staff and learners School buildings should therefore be attractive and psychologically helpful. In other words, the school experience must be aesthetically appealing thereby making learner easier and enjoyable, further claimed. While Adesina (1981), stressed that apart from protecting learners and teachers from the sun, the rain, the heat and cold, the school building represents a learning experience which has a tremendous positive impact on the comfort, safety and academic performance of the child.
Also, school experience should have sufficient space for adequate playground and expansion for building. He posed further that there should be water supply in school environment, because water is an importance factor to be reckoned with in the school since it forms parts of basis need for both staff and learners Ojedele (1998), viewed the pathetic situation in some school where learners are found sitting on the floor without desk or being taught in the classrooms which are equivalent of death traps due to their poor construction or due to their being insensibly located near market places or too busy highways. It is not uncommon to find learners sit down on windows to receive instructions and it is common to find as many as seventy learners in a class meant to accommodate forty learners. The result of these is that there is little or no interaction between the teachers and the learners.
However, he postulated that the classrooms should be large with adequate gangways that can afford staff and learners easy movements. The provision of desks and seats, chalkboard, teaching aids and cupboard is part of the ingredients for effective learning.
Oxford Advanced learners Dictionary defined environment as the physical surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives in this natural world. In the other hand, experience could be referred to the conditions the affect the behavior and development of the inhabitants.
Learners Opinion of Teachers Motivation and Academic Performance
Oyedeji (1998), pointed out that motivation is one of the ways of making people to put in their best efforts in an efficient and effective manner in other to perform organization objectives, because they are all aiming at the same goal. They have sought to distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of learners. They have also explained motivation in terms of needs. He further defined motivation as a process of arousing enthusiasm in an employee so that he can perform his duties with pleasure and high interest in pursuance of the organization and his personal goal.
According to Alao (2002), motivation is a concept which has been used in several ways to explain why people behave as they do, while referring to Ogunsaju (1999) one of the determinants of behavior of workers towards job is known as motivation. This simple term according to him refers to an inner drive which pushes one to behave either positively or negatively towards one’s goal. Also, Peretromode (1992) quoted Kelly, motivation has to go with the forces that maintain and alter the direction, quality and intensity of behavior. Ogunsaju (1999), expressed that in understanding and motivating human behavior, some knowledge of the most proposed by Abraham Maslow should be considered. The five needs he identified can be grouped into the following according to the priority:
 Physiological Needs: needs to satisfy biological maintenance such as foods, water, air, sex, shelter e.t.c.
 Safety and Security: This concludes need for protection and stability in the physical and internal events of day to day life.
 Social Needs: The aspects of needs for love, affection, companionship, acceptance and friendship, sense of belonging in one’s comparative with others
 Esteem Needs:- This is the desire for self-respect others, prestige, recognition, status, personal sense of acceptance
 Self-actualization: This is the need that satisfy self-advancement
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT COMING SOON ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The Senior Secondary School selected and their location for the study are below ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]APPENDIXUNIVERSITY OF ILORIN FACULTY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICSComparative study of learner opinion of school experience and their academic performance in senior secondary school in economic in Abeokuta North Local Government area, Nigeria.QUESTIONNAIREIntroduction The questionnaire is designed to elicit information of learner academic performance. It would be highly appreciated if you can kindly respond in writing by completing this questionnaire, please, be informed and rest a ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Purpose of the studyThe general purpose of this research work is to assess the comparative study of learner opinion of schools experience and their Academic performance in Economics in Abeokuta North Local Government.The study is specially designed to assess:1. Level of learners’ opinion of schools experience and how it influences their academic performance.2. Importance of learners’ opinion of school experience3. How the learner opinion of school experience can h ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGYIntroductionThis chapter explained the method used by the researcher in carrying out this study; the chapter is devoted to explain the methodology employed in carrying out this study The following sub-headings are highlighted.a. Research Typeb. Instrumentationc. Population, sample and sampling Techniquesd. Procedure for data collection.e. Method of data analysisResearch TypeThis study is essentially a descriptive survey rese ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 11 ]CHAPTER FOURDATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTSIntroductionIn this chapter, the researcher analysis and interpretation of the data were collected from the 10 (ten) selected Secondary Schools in Abeokuta North Local Government Area, with sampled populated of 30 (thirty) female learner and 30 (thirty) males learners Under these discussions, the results would be carefully expanded in question by question and part of the discussion would include explanation of the result within the context of the existing kno ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]RecommendationsIn view of the foregoing, the following recommendations are proffered. 1. That parents should use their socio-economic status positively whether high or low to influence their children academic performance in the subject economics and if possible, other subjects. They can do by making available the necessary materials their children needed in economics including textbooks, learning aids and even writing material 2. That parents should co-operate with their children in ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAdeshina S (1990). Some aspects of school management, Ibadan Board of publications Limited.Alao G.J (2002). Relationship between Headmasters Human relation Strategies and publics’ academic performance in Abeokuta North Local Government Area, Ogun State Unpublished M.ed Thesis Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria. Anderson (1997). Perspective on the education of women in the third. Comparative education review 24 (2).Bojuwoye, J (1986), School-home partnershi ... Continue reading---
