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ABSTRACT
The study critically investigates poor provision and
utilization of school facilities in Secondary School in Mushin Local
Government Area as it relates to students academic performance. The
study population comprises of all public Senior Secondary School
Students and the teachers in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos
State. Validated instrument was a self developed questionnaire
(IQPUSFSAP) for teachers & students on the provision and utilization
of school facilities. The data collected was analyzed using frequency
counts and percentage, the formulated hypotheses were tested using the
t-test statistical tools at 0.05 level of significance. It has been
established that a significant relationship exist between the provision
and utilization of school facilities and student’s academic performance.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
School
facilities have been observed as a potent factor to quantitative
education. The importance to teaching and learning on the provision and
utilization of adequate instructional facilities for education cannot be
over-emphasized. The dictum that “teaching is inseparable from learning
but learning is not separable from teaching” is that teachers do the
teaching to make the students learn, but students can learn without the
teachers. According Farant(1991 and Farombi 1998) learning can occur
through one’s interaction with one’s environment. Environment here
refers to facilities that are available to facilitate students learning
outcome. It includes books, audio-visual, software and hardware of
educational technology; size of classroom, sitting position and
arrangement, availability of tables, chairs, chalkboards, shelves on
which instruments for practical are arranged
According to Oni
(1992), facilities constitute a strategic factor in organizational
functioning. This is so because they determine to a very large extent
the smooth functioning of any social organization or system including
education. He further stated that their availability, adequacy and
relevance influence efficiency and high productivity. In his words,
Farombi (1998) opines that the wealth of a nation or society could
determine the quality of education in that land; emphasizing that a
society that is wealthy will establish good schools with quality
teachers, learning infrastructures, students learn with ease thus
bringing about good academic achievement. Writing on the role of
facilities in teaching, Anameze (2001) submitted that no effective
science education programme can exist without equipment for teaching.
This is because facilities enable the learner to develop problem-solving
skills and scientific attitudes. In their contribution, Alliyu(1993)
reiterated that when facilities are provided to meet relative needs of a
school system, students will not only have access to the reference
materials mentioned by the teacher, but individual students will also
learn at their own paces. The net effect of this is increased overall
academic performance of the entire students.
In his study on
resource concentration, utilization and management as correlates of
students’ learning outcomes, Farombi (1998) found that the classroom
learning environment in some schools was poor. He cited examples of
schools without chalkboard, absence of ceiling, some roofing sheets not
in place, windows and doors removed among others, a situation which the
researcher regarded as hazardous to healthy living of the learners.
According to Nigerian Tribune on Thursday 25 November, 1999, in a
caption; “Mass Failure will Continue until…” the chairman of the
National Committee of WAEC, Dr. U.B. Ahmed opined that the classroom is
the origin of failure… a close look at the public schools and what goes
on there shows that nothing good can come out of most schools as they do
not have facilities, adequate and appropriate human resources to
prepare candidates for WASCE.
The above statement indicates that
the problem of candidates’ mass failure in WAEC’s organized examination
will continue until the situation of the nation’s public schools change
for the better. Writing on how to improve primary education in
developing countries, World Bank publication (1990). Aliyu,K.(1993)
linked performance of students to the provision of adequate facilities
while referring to a survey of 51 primary schools in Botswana that
students performed significantly better on academic tests when they had
adequate classrooms, desks and books. Earlier, Fagbamiye (1999)
attesting to why students’ performance standard fall observed 559 cases
from 13 secondary schools in Lagos State using age, type of school (day
or boarding, mixed or single sex), teachers’ qualifications and teaching
experience as well as intake quality using students’ entrance
examination achievement. His findings revealed that schools which are
equipped had good records of achievement and attracted more students. He
concluded that good quality schools in terms of facilities and younger
students’ intake perform better in WASCE. Commenting on why high
academic attainment is not in vogue in Nigeria. Madumere (2007)
identified poor and inadequate physical facilities, obsolete teaching
techniques… overcrowded classrooms among others, as factors. Throwing
more light on school facilities and moral guiding provision, Fabunmi
(1997) asserted that school facilities when provided will aid teaching
learning programme and consequently improve academic achievement of
students while the models guiding their provision to schools could take
any form as rational bureaucratic and or political model. Whichever
model is adopted, according to him, there is always a common feature of
differing allocation of facilities to schools. In his words, Ojoawo
(1990), however, noted that certain schools are favored in the
allocation of facilities at the expense of others. Writing on poor
performance of students in public examinations, London (1990) states
that in many developing nations, certain physical facilities are none
existent, and that those instances where amenities are available many
are of sub standard quality. What is even more alarming is the
correlation, which these observers claim to exist between quality of
facilities and academic performance. Lamenting on the glowing
inadequacies of school facilities in our education industry.
Adegboye
(2000) opines that everywhere you look, primary, secondary, special,
technical, tertiary, there is abundant evidence of crippling inertia,
criminal neglect and a pervasive decay in values and standard. Other
scholars (Wilcockson, 1994; Lawal 1995; Ajayi –Dopemu, (2008) have
variously identified the significance of facilities in teaching and
learning spheres. We can say that absence or poor (and or deteriorating)
quality of educational facilities can influence academic performance.
Gamoran (1992), however, holding a contrary view noted that facilities…
teachers’ salaries, books in the library and the presence of science
laboratory, had little impact on variation in student’s achievement once
students background variables had been taken into account. This
statement connotes that before such student could perform well in higher
educational level, he must have been groomed or cushioned by
availability of resources in his elementary days upon which he now uses
as spring board. According to Hallak (1990), facilities form one of the
potent factors that contribute to academic achievement in the school
system. They include the school buildings, classroom, accommodation,
libraries, laboratories, furniture, recreational equipment, apparatus
and other instructional materials. He went further to say that their
availability, relevance and adequacy contribute to academic achievement.
He however, quickly added that unattractive school buildings and
overcrowded classrooms among others contribute to poor academic
attainment. Describing where these facilities should be located, he
ascribed that educational facilities should be located in appropriate
places, while the needs of the users should be put into consideration.
In
another development. Aliyu (1993) found that there was no significant
difference between students in secondary schools with and without
adequate instructional facilities. However, he submitted that
instructional facilities were indispensible to academic achievement of
students in English Language, Mathematics, Biology and Geography while
students could perform well in other subjects without adequacy of
sophisticated instructional materials. He concluded that the effect of
instructional facilities on students’ academic achievement is more felt
in pure and social sciences. Therefore, it is the responsibility of
the educational system to facilitate learning by creating the ideal
situation for the child to discover things for himself especially
through adequate provision of school facilities. This indicates that the
school facilities would surely have a great impact on the students. The
school facilities may indicate a great deal of cooperation among the
groups in the school setting while some might not even want to learn at
all. This implies that the school facilities will affect the performance
of both the teachers and the students either positively or negatively.
This study therefore aims at encouraging school administrators to
apply modern techniques in the management of school facilities. It also
suggests that school administrators and managers should be constantly
trained and retrained on the modern tools of management. Thus, the
standard of education will improve greatly if the resources allocated to
education and the available school facilities are optimally utilized.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Cursory observation reveals
that majority of students in public secondary schools in Mushin Local
Government area of Lagos State perform below desired outcomes in the
Senior School Certificate Examination especially when results of
previous years are compared. (Ossai, 2004). This observed poor
performance motivated this research. A student’s academic performance is
measured by his or her scholastics achievement. This scholastic
achievement is known through the use of instructional evaluation and
other associated invisible but real influences that influence
performance such as school facilities among others.
The causes of
poor performance in our public secondary schools have been blamed on
several factors. Critics have apportioned blames on teachers, society,
parents, school inspectorate and the government about learners’
inability to perform outstandingly well, (Ojoawo, 1990). However, issues
that bother on inadequate and most times insufficient school facilities
have the major blame in students’ academic performance as the
sociologists are quick to observe that the environment makes the man.
Akinkugbe( 1994). School facilities optimization is therefore so
important and contribute significantly to students achievement so much
that it cannot be neglected in the development of the education sector.
As rightly observed by Oni (1992), the availability and adequacy in
quantity and quality of the physical/material facilities make possible a
school’s smooth operation and enhance effective teaching-learning
activity thereby resulting in achieving higher educational attainments
by the students.
Therefore this research is to investigate the
extent to which the provision utilization of school Facility such as
school building, laboratory library, ICT has influenced student academic
performance in Senior Secondary in Mushin Local government Area. Area
of Lagos State which could be attributed to poor provision and
utilization of school facilities.
1.3 Purpose of Study
1.
To examine the significant relationship between the provision and
utilization of school facilities such as school building and class size
and student’s academic performance in Senior Secondary School in Mushin
Local government Area.
2. To assess the extent to which the use of the laboratory as affected student’s academic performance their examination.
3.
To examine the significant relationship between the provision and
utilization of instructional materials and Students academic
performance.
1.4 Research Questions
1. Is there any
significant relationship between the provision and utilization of
school facilities such as school building and student’s academic
performance in Senior Secondary School in Mushin Local government Area?
2.
Is there any significant relationship between the provision and
utilization of instructional materials such as map, chart, white board,
projector and film on Students academic performance?
1.5 Research Hypotheses
1.
There is no significant relationship between the provision and
utilization of school facilities such as school building and student’s
academic performance.
2. There is no significant relationship
between the provision and utilization of instructional materials such as
map, chart, white board, projector and film on Students academic
performance.
1.6 Significance of the Study
The findings of
this study will go a long way in enhancing the standard of education and
motivate educational managers, school facilities’ planners and
administrators in the management of educational system to bring about
regular maintenance, reconstruction, where necessary. This study will
therefore provides an appraisal of the utilization of the school
facilities in some secondary schools in Lagos State and how this is
related to Students’ academic performance in SSCE upon which standard
evaluation is often made by external examining bodies.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
This
study will be limited to five secondary school in Mushin Local
government area of Lagos state. Finance, time and other logistics may
be major constraints.
1.8 Definition of term
Laboratory: This
is a room or building equipped for scientific experimentation;
laboratory is also a equipped room for scientific research, or teaching
or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals.
Library: This
is a room containing collection of books, periodicals and sometimes
films and recorded music for people to read or borrow. It is also a
collection of sources, resources, and services and the structure in
which it is housed.
Facilities: These are equipment, infrastructures and machines as well as any physical structure.
Provision:
This means building new Facilities or building physical structure like
classroom and playground. Instruction Facilities: These are
classrooms, laboratories, workshops and library.
Utilization: It refers to the extent of the operation or use of available facilities provided for the studies.
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