THE LINK BETWEEN SCHOOL FACILITIES AND STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS

THE LINK BETWEEN SCHOOL FACILITIES AND STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the Study

Academic institutions exist in voids around the world, and learning cannot take place in institutions that lack adequate facilities. The term “facility” refers to the infrastructure that allows an organization or institution to carry out its day-to-day operations while also encouraging personal growth and professional advancement among its members. In other words, a facility allows a company or organization to carry out its mission. According to Onyeji (2017), a facility can refer to either the overall atmosphere of a school or the entirety of an organization, or it can refer to the physical and material resources made available to students and instructors within a school in order to facilitate the learning process.

The process of learning and teaching.

Classrooms, libraries, and research laboratories are the three basic types of facilities that are likely to be present in an educational system or environment, according to Olamide (2020). In terms of the availability of libraries as a school facility, many of our secondary schools do not have any operational libraries, and where some libraries do exist, there are no new or current books that are relevant to the current secondary school programs. Furthermore, many of our secondary schools lack books that are relevant to the current secondary school curriculum. To put it another way, the accessibility of our secondary school libraries is a concern. In In fact, the vast majority of secondary schools in Nigeria, particularly those in the state of Lagos, lack library facilities. It is impossible to adequately minimize either the library’s relevance or the many different roles that it serves. Teachers and students can benefit significantly from the resources provided by libraries and books. Given that our secondary school students have no choice but to rely solely on their textbooks for information, we cannot rule out the possibility that they will be given outdated information in old books provided to us by the British Council a number of years ago.

a number of years ago and are typically found in older secondary schools. This is a risk we cannot afford to overlook.

According to Dada (1994), anyone familiar with Nigerian secondary school classrooms will agree that no constructive teaching or learning activities can take place in the majority of them. Anyone with prior experience in secondary school classrooms in Nigeria can reach this conclusion. This is true even if the teachers are divinely inspired and the students are a group of highly evolved beings with extraordinary intelligence. The issue is that there aren’t enough classrooms to accommodate all of the students who require them. As a result, classrooms designed to hold between 30 and 40 students were overcrowded.

of years ago and are typically found in older secondary schools. This is a risk we cannot afford to ignore.

According to Dada (1994), anyone familiar with secondary school classrooms in Nigeria will agree that no constructive teaching or learning activities can take place in the majority of them. Anyone with prior experience in Nigerian secondary school classrooms can reach this conclusion. This is true even if the instructors are divinely inspired and the students are a group of highly evolved beings with exceptional intelligence. The issue is that there are not enough classrooms to accommodate the number of students who require them. As a result, classrooms designed to hold between 30 and is concerned with the availability of laboratories in schools. Biology and chemistry lessons are frequently presented in a large number of educational institutions as broad courses that do not require any laboratory practice. Some other schools teach the three branches of science without using laboratories in the hope that their students will use laboratories at other schools during their exams. Alternatively, in order for the school to purchase science equipment, these schools require students to contribute money to the school’s Parents Teachers Association. Certain schools teach the three scientific disciplines without using labs, assuming that students will take their exams in laboratories provided by other institutions. It has happened. Science has been identified as the subject with the highest failure rate. This is due to the fact that our educational system does not provide students with basic sciences but instead emphasizes theoretical sciences while ignoring experimental work. According to Olanre (2018), the reason for this is that the Nigerian educational system does not provide students with the fundamental sciences. He went on to say that the point here is not just that students in our secondary schools have been treated unfairly, but that the nation as a whole has been treated unfairly. This is because no nation can advance its technological capabilities through theoretical teaching of scientific subjects, and inadequate educational facilities make meaningful teaching impossible.

Learning to take place, and that the educational community’s common refrain is that everything is fine with our secondary schools. This situation has arisen as a result of these facts.

1.2 Problem Propositions

It is difficult to overstate the importance of adequate school facilities and amenities to the overall growth and expansion of the educational system. This is because the importance of adequate school facilities and amenities cannot be overstated. According to Ikedika (2019), many of the various types of school amenities available in Nigerian schools are severely deficient. As a result, the process of instructing and learning may become less difficult and more enjoyable for both teachers and students. The students. Many times, there has been a consistent outcry about the inadequate provision or non-provision of school facilities, specifically laboratories, classrooms (buildings), and libraries, which are primary school facilities that aid in the teaching and learning process. Furthermore, there have been numerous instances where there has been a consistent outcry about the lack of school facilities. Torty (2018), for example, claimed that due to a lack of necessary equipment in the school, teachers in the science fields find it difficult to experiment and carry out practical teaching in the school, and as a result, many students are unable to learn the concepts that they are taught in the classroom. Torty’s argument was founded on Due to a lack of necessary equipment, science teachers find it difficult to experiment and carry out practical teaching in the classroom. Because the school lacked sufficient classrooms and libraries to meet the needs of its students, students’ overall academic performance in both art and science classes deteriorated from year to year. This is due to teachers’ inability to effectively use the instructional materials at their disposal in order to present their courses in a way that is both comprehensive and conducive to increased student comprehension. Despite the fact that there have been numerous studies on school resources and student achievement, this study seeks to investigate the relationship between school facilities and student achievement.

Academic achievement in a public secondary school. In fact, the lack of availability or scarcity of school facilities in our secondary schools sparked the investigation that led to the creation of this study.

1.3 The Study’s Objectives

The primary goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between school facilities and students’ academic performance in a sample of secondary schools. Other study objectives include:

i. Determine whether physical facilities, such as classrooms, have a significant correlation with students’ learning outcomes.

ii. Determine whether adequate library provision influences student academic achievement.

iii. Determine whether the availability of school laboratories is related to high academic performance in students.

1.4. Hypothesis of Research

For the study, these research questions were posed.

HO1:

Physical facilities, such as classrooms, have no significant correlation with students’ learning outcomes.

HO2: The availability of school laboratories is not related to high academic performance among students.

1.5 The Study’s Importance

It is hoped that students will benefit from this study because they will gain a better understanding of how the lack of infrastructure in secondary schools will affect their academic performance. It is hoped that the study will help teachers understand that providing adequate infrastructure will help both students and teachers to facilitate the teaching and learning processes. The findings and recommendations of this study will be used by school officials to solve the problem of inadequate infrastructure provision.

in our high schools. They would gain a better understanding of the impact of inadequate infrastructure provision in our schools on teachers’ work performance and students’ academic performance as a result of this study. Parents will benefit from the study because it will help them understand the impact of inadequate infrastructure on academic and work performance of both students and teachers. The study’s findings and recommendations would assist school authorities in finding long-term solutions to the problem of inadequate infrastructure provision in our schools. The study will benefit society because when adequate infrastructure is provided in schools, teachers will work harder to produce a better crop of students for the society.

1.6 The Scope of theStudy

The scope of this study is limited to the relationship between school facilities and student achievement in a sample of public secondary schools. The study will also consider whether physical facilities such as large classrooms have a significant impact on learning outcomes, as well as whether school laboratories are associated with high academic performance in students. The study, however, is limited to selected secondary schools in Anambra State’s Akwa South Local Government Area.

1.7 Study Restrictions

The researchers encountered minor constraints while conducting the study, as with any human endeavor. The significant constraint was the scarcity of literature on the subject due to the fact that it is a new discourse, so the researcher incurred more financial expenses and spent more time searching for relevant materials, literature, or data.  The researcher resorted to a limited sample size covering only secondary schools in Akwa South Local Government Area in Anambra State due to a lack of information and in the process of data collection. As a result, the findings of this study cannot be generalized to other secondary schools in Nigeria. Furthermore, the researcher’s involvement in this study while also working on other academic projects will impede maximum dedication to the research. Nonetheless, despite the constraints encountered during the research, all factors were minimized in order to provide the best results and make the research a success.