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The Relationship Between Educational Resources And Students' Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF IN ILORIN WEST LGA, KWARA STATE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS]
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1.5 Research Hypotheses
Based on the research questions stated, the following hypotheses were formulated to guide the study:
Main Hypotheses
HO:
There is no significant relationship between physical resources and
students’ academic performance in Ilorin west LGA, Kwara State Secondary
Schools.
Operational Hypotheses
H1: There is no significant
relationship between human resources and students’ academic performance
in Ilorin west LGA, Kwara State Secondary Schools.
HO2: There is no
significant relationship between physical resources and students’
academic performance in Ilorin west LGA, Kwara State Secondary
Schools.
HO3: There is no significant relationship between
financial resources and students academic performance in Ilorin west
LGA, Kwara State Secondary schools.
HO4: There is no significant
relationship between material resources and students’ academic
performance in Ilorin Kwara State Secondary Schools.
1.6 Scope of the study
The
study focused on educational resources and students’ academic
performance in Ilorin west LGA, Kwara State Secondary Schools. The
indicators used for Educational resources are: Human resources, material
resources, physical resources and financial resources.
Although, there are 23 public secondary school in Ilorin west local
government area Kwara State, the researcher limited the study to 15
selected schools from the 23 secondary schools in the LGA. Hence, the
researcher is of the opinion that the result will be representative of
the public schools
1.7 Significance of the Study
The findings of
this study would be of significant importance o the government, the
parents and private organizations on the need to provide educational
resources of all instructions of learning for effective teaching and
learning
In addition, the study would be of immense
significance to the ministry of education and teaching service
commission on the need to expose secondary Schools principals and
teachers more to periodic workshops, seminars and sandwich program to
update their knowledge for efficiency and effectiveness in their jobs
1.8 Operational Definition of Term
For the purpose of the study, the following variables were operationally defined.
Resources:
Resources in education is the sum total of everything that goes into
the education system. A resource in this study, therefore, is taken to
mean input into secondary schools education program. Such resources
examined fall into four categories, which constitutes the four sub
variable VIZ: Human, Material Physical, and financial resources.
Human
resources -: Human resources refers to staff both teaching and
non-teaching staff. In this study, teaching personnel represent the
human resources of the school system and excludes the non teaching
staff.
Material resources -: This refers to the resources such as : books, biro, pencils, microscope and so on.
Physical
resources -: This refers to the resources such as basic infrastructures
such as building, fixture fitting, classrooms lecture rooms, space
rooms laboratories, libraries, chairs desks and tables used by staffs
and students.
Financial resources -: This refers to the monetary aspect of secondary school education.
Academic
performance -: this is the display of knowledge and skills attained as
shown by the marks or grades achieved by the students of a school in an
examination during and after course content.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This study intends to find out the relationship between teaching resources for learning and students academic performance in English Language in Nigerian secondary schools, a case study of Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The research instruments were direct observations, mini interviews, questionnaires and documentary sources. The result of the study showed that there are significant relationship between teaching resources and students academic performance. It was recommended ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Previous
researcher has tried to explain the reasons for the decline in the
students’ academic performance by linking it with inadequacy and
non-availability of classroom, library and laboratories. It has rightly
predicted that a sharp decline would be apparent in the quality of the
professionals and students that graduate from our educational
institution in not too distant future due to the fact that such item
like books, teaching aids and educational materials are not on ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER THREERESEARCH METHODOLOGYThis chapter describes and presented the research method employed for this study. It focuses on the following sub-heading:- 3.1 Research design 3.2 Population, sample and sampling techniques3.3 Instrumentation 3.4 Procedure for data collection 3.5 Data analysis3.1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The research design adopted for this study was a descriptive survey. This design allows the researcher to make careful record of what were observe ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Thus, the null hypothesis which states that ‘there is no significant relationship between physical resources and students ‘academic performance in public secondary school in Ilorin west LGA, kwara state’ is rejected .However ,there is a positive and significant relationship between physical resources and students’ academic performance in public secondary school Ilorin west LGA kwara state. Ho2: There is no significant relationship between human resources and student ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]In table 5, Ho: the calculated t-value (2.01) is greater than the
critical t-value of 1.65 at 0.05 level of significance for 298 degree of
freedom. Hence, the null hypothesis which states that there is no
significant relationship between educational resources and students’
academic performance in Ekiti state secondary schools, is rejected. This
implies that, there is significant relationship between educational
resources and student academic performance. However, all the educa ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCES Adeogun. A.A. (2001). The principal and the financial management of public secondary schools in Osun State. Journal of Educational System and Development. 5(1), pp. 1-10.Adesina, S. (1990). Some aspects of school management. Lagos: Educational Industries Nigeria Ltd. Aghenta, J. A. (1999). Principles and practice of educational planning: Focus on the Developing Countries. Benin City: NSCPBorisade I.T. (2012). Unit cost of Secondary Education and students’ Academic Achievement i ... Continue reading---
