The Relationship Between Educational Resources And Students' Academic Performance
[A CASE STUDY OF IN ILORIN WEST LGA, KWARA STATE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS]

Ho4: There is no significant relationship between material resources and students’ academic performance in pubic secondary schools in

                        Table 9 above shows that calculated t-value (2.14 is greater than the critical t-value (1.65) for 298 degree of freedom at 0.05 significant level. Hence, the null hypothesis which state that there is no significant relationship between material resources and student’s academic performance in public secondary schools in Ilorin west LGA kwara state.
4.3 Summary of findings
 The study investigated whether significant relationship existed between educational resources and students’ academic performance in in pubic secondary schools in Ilorin west LGA kwara state.  Literatures related to the study were reviewed. The descriptive research design was adopted and fifteen secondary schools were randomly sampled from in Ilorin west LGA kwara state. The criteria used for the selection of the fifteen were the schools should be at least ten years old, the school should have been approved by the government, the schools should have presented candidates for west African examination council for minimum of five years also 200 principals and teachers randomly selected as the respondents for the study. Data were collected using a researcher-designed questionnaire to be completed by principals and teachers. The questionnaire was tagged “educational resources and students’ Academic Performance Question (ERSAPQ)”.
       Research questionnaire were raised one main hypothesis and four operational hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Simple percentage was used to analyze the research questions and Pearson product moment’s correlation statistical method was used to analyze the hypotheses at 0.05 significant levels.
Findings on the research questions revealed that that principals and teachers considered: highest of the physical resources (52.9%) provided are not functioning and (40.1%)of physical resources are not available. Whereas only (33.7%) of physical resources are available and useful in public secondary school in Ilorin west LGA kwara state; NCE holders take the highest (52.94%) than B.Sc, B.Ed holder (45.98%) and M.Sc, M.Ed holders (1.08%) the indentified major sources of financing secondary school n Ilorin west local government of kwara state is adequate as it takes the highest score (53.7%). Quiet adequate and not adequate are (25%) and (21.3%) respectively and material not available higher (48.5%) the material available (19.6%) and the material not functioning (31.9%).  Thus, it was opined that those educational resources: physical, human, material and financial resources should be regarded as fundamental keys to the accomplishment of the educational goals.
           In addition the main hypothesis  which state d that “ there is no significant relationship between educational resources and students’ academic performance in Ilorin west secondary schools” was rejected because the calculated t-value (2.01) was greater than critical t-value (1.65) which was showed that a significant relationship exist between variables. The summary of the result of the operational hypotheses include: a significant relation exists between the physical resources and students academic performance (calculated t-value of 2.31 was greater than the critical t-value of 1.65) at 298 degree of freedom; a significant relationship exists between human resources and students’ academic performance (calculated t-value of 1.99 was greater than the critical t-value of 1.65) at 298 degree of freedom; academic performance (calculated t-value of 2.00 was greater than the critical t-value of i.65 )at 298 degree of freedom; and lastly, significant relationship exists between material resources and students’ academic performance (calculated t-value of 2.14 was greater than the critical t-value of 1.65) at 298 degree of freedom. In a nutshell, all the operational hypotheses were rejected.
   The finding show that if educational resource are efficiently supplied and effectively utilized such as physical resources, human resources, financial resources and material resources, there will be progress and the schools’ goals will be accomplished.