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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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3.3 INSTRUMENTATION
The instrument used for data collection was a
researcher- designed questionnaire to be completed by the teachers and
the principals. It was tagged. Educational resources and students’
academic performance questionnaire (ERSAPQ). The purpose of the
questionnaire was to request the respondents to rate the academic
performance of the students in order to determine the effectiveness of
education resources.
The ERSAPQ was divided in to three sections
Section
“A†was designed to elicit information about the teacher and
principals. Section “B†focus on items related to educational resources
to which the respondents provide answer by ticking appropriately, the
Colum that best described their view and section “C†provide space for
students academic performance in SSCE English, mathematics, Yoruba,
biology and economics the respondents in section B were required to
score the item on a three points, either available or quite adequate or
M.Ed, M.Sc holder= 3, not available or adequate or B.sc, B.Ed holder= 2,
Not functioning or Not adequate or NCE hold= 1 and in section C, the
respondents were to state the total number of students that had A1 to
C6, D7 to E8 and F9. The items will be scored as follows: A1 to C6 to
take 3 point, D7 to E8 to take 2 points and F9 will take 1 point. All
the items in the questionnaire were relevant to the variable in study.
3.4 Validity and Reliability of the Instrument
Validity
of an instrument refers to the extent to which an instrument measures
what it is expected and designed to measure. The draft of the
questionnaire was given to the expert in the department of educational
management for face and content validity, which were subjected to
scrutiny, criticism and suggestions. The professional advice given was
put into adequate consideration to ensure the validity of the instrument
and the corrected version were administered to teachers and principals
in the sampled schools.
Reliability is the degree to which an
instrument yielded similar result at interval. To establish the
reliability of the instrument designed for this study, a test-re-test
method was used after an internal of two weeks. The result obtained was
.76 Pearson product moment, correlation statistical method. This means
that the instrument was high degree of reliability.
3.5 Procedure of Data Collection
The
questionnaires were personally administered by the researcher in all
the sampled secondary school in Ilorin west LGA, Kwara state with the
help of some teachers within each school who served as research
assistant. This procedure enabled the researcher to offer explanation on
certain items in addition to facilitating retrieval of the entire
questionnaire from the respondents.
3.6 Data Analysis Techniques
the
information collected from the questionnaire were analyzed using
percentage for research question formulated and Pearson product moment
correlation for research hypotheses earlier formulated at .05
significant relationship between the independent variable (Educational
Resources) and the dependent variable (students’ academic performance).
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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 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 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---
