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Influence Of Instructional Materials On Students Academic Performance In Secondary Schools
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT]
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Statement of the Problem
The problem of the study is to examine the influence of instructional materials on academic performance of students in geography in Ilorin West Local Government Area.
Purpose of the Study
The general purpose of this study is to assess the influence of instructional materials on the teaching and learning of geography and on the students’ academic performance in geography in Ilorin West Local Government Area Secondary Schools of Kwara State. Other specific, purpose are:
a. To examine the difference on students taught with and without an instructional materials
b. To examine the gender factors on the students academic performance in geography
c. To determine the quality and quantity of instructional materials available for teaching geography in selected schools and their impact on student’s performance
d. To examine the impart of instructional material on the performance of geography students
e. To confirm the relevance of instructional material to the teaching of geography
f. To provide a possible way out of improving the students academic performance in geography in secondary schools.
g. To recommend ways of keeping up the use of instructional materials
Research Hypotheses
In order to verify the impact of instructional materials on students performance in geography, the following hypotheses were formulated to be tested to aid the study.
H01: There is no significant difference in the academic performance of students taught with instructional materials and those taught without instructional materials.
H02: There is no significant difference between the academic performance of male and female students taught with instructional materials.
H03: There is no significant relationship between the availability of text books and students ’academic performance in geography.
H04: There is no significant relationship between the instructional materials and students academic performances in geography.
Significance of the Study
The study will be greatly important to the following categories of people: parent, school administrators, curriculum planners and developers, educational researchers, educational policy makers, government, the public at large most especially the teachers and learners of geography in Ilorin West Local Government Area.
The study may enable teachers of geography to have more knowledge about different resources and materials that are useful for teaching and learning of the subject in a more effective and efficient way. Many teachers might have been prepared in the delivery of their lessons but when it comes to using of instructional materials to bring close the concept, they may not know the relevant one that is suitable.
The finding to be derived from this study would provide a sound basis for policy development on the provision and usage of instructional materials in secondary schools.
The study would also help the educational planners to restructure the educational programme and curriculum in order to improve the teaching process as regards geography as subject. The study would create awareness in the improvisation of local instructional materials or teaching aids, so that teaching and learning would be more meaningful, interesting and stimulating. School administrators would equally benefit from the findings of this study, because it will enable them to identify the problems militating against effective teaching geography in secondary schools, and this can help them to offer possible solutions to the identified problems.
Finally the research would also form a basis for further investigation in area of instructional materials to bring about significant improvement in teaching geography.
Scope and Limitation of the Study
The study covers the entire secondary schools in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. Due to financial constraints and accessibility to data, four secondary schools were selected out of many secondary schools in Ilorin East Local Government Area. Response gathered from the selected secondary schools will be used to generalized the influence of instructional materials on students academic performance in geography in Ilorin East Local Government Area.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThe study examined the effect of instructional materials on student’s academic performance in geography in Ilorin West Local Government Area, Kwara State.Four secondary schools were selected from the local government for research purpose. Total of eight (8) teachers and thirty two (32) students were the sample used. The instrument used for the study was a structured questionnaire designed by the researcher. The data collected was analyzed using simple percentage and chi-square.  ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]UNIVERSITY OF ILORINFACULTY OF EDUCATIONDEPARTMENT OF ARTS EDUCATION QUESTIONNAIRE Dear Respondent, Â
 This questionnaire is designed to examine Influence Of Instructional
Materials On Students Academic Performance in Geography in Senior
Secondary Schools in Ilorin West Local Government. The information
supplied will be used for research purpose only. Therefore, your honest
response to each item will be highly appreciated. SECTION APlease tick (Â Â Â Â Â ) as appropriate Name of yo ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]These examples reveal that audio materials could readily be made available either in the natural ( real) or representation ( recorded) formsVisual materials:  These are teaching and learning materials that appeal mainly to the sense of sight or vision (eye) done.  They could be made available either in their representational or real visual form ( Farrant 2008). Some examples of visual materials are:a.   Some specimens e.g fairing and hunting implements.b.   Pictures e.g real photog ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Validity of the Instrument   The validity of the instrument was established by face and content validity.  Validity of an instrument relates to the extent to which it measures what it intends to measure.  To do this, some copies of the instrument were distributed to some friends in geography department for their observation and suggestion, a copy was also given to the project supervisor for his assessment, correction and endorsement. The statements of the questionnaire were carefully ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Discussion of Findings    The hypothesis one which states that “there is no significant difference in the performance of the students taught with instructional materials and those though without instructional materials was rejected. This simply indicated that, those students taught with instructional materials performed better than those taught without instructional materials. This reveals the impact of instructional materials on the students academic performance, it shows that with in ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAbolade and Adegbija (2007). Evaluating Secondary School Geography in Nigeria Journal of art and social science. Teachers Association of Nigeria.Adefila (2010) Impact of teacher quality and the academic achievement of students at secondary stage in Nigeria Adeyemo, S.O (2005) Research and statistical methods in education, for students and research and statistical methods in education, for student and researchers in teaching in tertiary institution (Revised Ed) Ilorin: Bimtex printing a ... Continue reading---
