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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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Educational
intuitions from Nursery to university require building for their
effective operations. Classrooms, offices assembly halls, laboratories,
and staff quarters, are needed. Within the buildings there should be
fixtures and fittings to make them usable, the infrastructure
facilities. Included here are important items like furniture for staff
and students, books science equipment, game and spot equipment, and
other items. These facilities have to be adequate in Number and they
should all be in good condition for school to function properly
Research has show that school plant aids the effectiveness of the
school system. School plant can be defined as school site and all the
structure that have been put in place to aid effective teaching and
learning in the school. It is in the space interpretation of the school
curriculum. The school curriculum cannot be implemented if the physical
facilities required for teaching and learning are not available. Without
school plant, the school cannot exist. It therefore becomes necessary
to ensure that school plant is properly planned and maintained to
facilitate the effectiveness of the school system. School plant aids the
academic performance of the community in terms of extra moral classes,
adult education program, meeting people, sport activities and public
ceremonies (Ajayi, I.A 1999).
A
recent study conducted provide excellent to back up the claim that
physical structure is significantly related to schools academic
performance. A researcher maintained that it is necessary that efforts
should be made to renovate the dilapidated school buildings in the
country. While some educationist argue that where a child is taught and
where he learns do not matter, as against what he taught and how is
taught, some others content that unless school curriculum are
attractive, pupil will not be motivated to learn. There would seem to be
motivated to learn. There would seem to be no conclusive evidence to
support one or the other of these two positions. However, experience has
shown that primary schools that produce the best result in the national
common entrance examination and the secondary schools that have been
judged to be good, are certainly not the ones with dilapidated building
and overcrowded classrooms, but the ones that have good and
alternative buildings and have classrooms with about 40 pupils as
opposed to those with 70 and 80 pupils. In addition to the renovation of
existing school buildings, it is desirable that more classrooms should
be constructed in order to decongest existing classes that are too large
for efficient class management.
2.7 Educational Resources and student’s academic performance
Adeogun (2001) discover a very strong positive significant relationship
between instructional resources and academic performance. According to
him, schools endowed with more resources performed better than schools
that are less endowed. This corroborated the study of Babayomi (1999)
that private schools, because of the availability and adequacy of
teaching and learning resources performed better than public schools.
Adeogun (2001) discovered a low level of instructional resources
available in public schools and stated that our public schools are
starred of both teaching and learning resources. He expresses that
effective teaching cannot take place within the classroom if basic
instructional resources are not present.
Loxley (2004) discovered that inadequate supply of textbooks in schools
is having a toll on teaching and learning activities in many of the
countries in the world. According to him, the World Bank data recorded
the number of student to a textbook as ratio 20:1 sodium (1998), in his
findings reported that based on the high cost of textbooks, many
students have been unable to buy books and will help to promote the
quality of education they receive in Lagos state public secondary
schools. He even stressed that parents believed so much in government
funding the education in public schools to the extent that they become
non-challant towards equipping their wards with textbooks. The textbooks
as indicated by Oni (1995) are indispensable to the quality education
and students’ academic performance in all the schools in the world.
Nkuuhe (1995) study, highlighted some of the bad influence as, teacher’s
abdication of teaching responsibility to textbooks at the expense of
original teaching method; textbooks does not give room for flexibility,
instead there are mechanical division of the curriculum and no provision
made for individual differences among students. Giwa (2005) discovered
the problems militating against schools inspection as shortage of
manpower and quality of personnel available for the work, according to
them, in most Africa countries the roles of inspectors tend to be
ineffective due to severe resources constraints. In the findings they
realized the number of inspectors and monitoring officer who are newly
employed with no practical experience on the job are being posted to the
inspectorate unit of the ministry of education. They stated that to
inspect and supervise schools effectively requires regular school visit
of well experienced officers with adequate provision of resources to
forestall ineffectiveness in performing their duties. Fagbamiye (2004)
discovered that government should reduce its responsibilities to
monitoring of what transpires in the schools to ensure quality. Good
education cost more than bad. Inadequacy of funds handicaps principals
in their administrative and academic functions.
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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 ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Federal and state policy maker proposing new education program often base their argument on the need to provide more resources to school to improve opportunities for students. Many Americans seems to share this view.Polling data show that many people believe that government allocates insufficient resources to school. A poll conducted annually from 2009 through 2012 found that American adults list insufficient funding and resources as top problem facing public school in their community. The avail ... 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---
