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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Education is man’s fundamental method
of reform and progress. It can be regarded as the tool with which society
brings the transmission of its own culture. Reomer (1981) refers to education
as “all those experiences of the individual through which knowledge is
acquired, the intellect enlightened or the will strengthened “ while Unachuka
(1989) defines education as “ the process by which individuals are assisted
formally or informally, though proper direction and finance, to develop their
capacity for their own benefit and that of the society.
Education can therefore be regarded as
a social process whose purpose is to bring about certain desirable behavioural
change in the total development of the individual. In the whole world education
has been given more regard while in Nigeria particularly education has been
seen as the main vehicle for rapid development.
It is obvious that since advent of the
Europeans, Nigerians have attached much importance to western education. The
first type of schools according to Bab Fafunwa (2001) were the Islamic and
Arabic schools which emerged as a result of the Islamic Scholars arrival into
the country on the pretence of trade. They brought along with them their
religion which was Islamic under which were the Arabic school.
The first set of schools were usually
situated under big trees with students who were mainly normally conducted in
the evenings after their trading activities with the merchants who acted as the
tutors. These teachers are called “Mallams”. It is obvious that the first type
of school system didn’t have any facility apart from the slate and foreign
textbooks used.
Furthermore, with the arrival of
western education, the uses of facilities became ivogue. Classrooms which came
in small rooms now in form of schools which comprises of administrative blocks,
offices with such facilities as chairs, tables, chalk and chalkboards.
Textbooks were also provided to aid teaching, this ease the way knowledge was
formally imparted to the students to prove for old stanions system.
Walberg and Thomas (1992) shown that
pupils have been noted to learn best when they can effectively explore at
school environment that is rich in material, so that whenever they are given
the responsibility to make meaningful choice, they afford to interact with the
available facilities.
This led to Adaralegbe’s (1978)
statement which states that the large scale of educational programme had been
embarked upon, because of increasing awareness of the country that, education
pauses the way for modernization and enable one to improve oneself. Putting
this into consideration in our schools presently it will be noted that,
education by various government bit yet, much efforts is still required to meet
up adequately. Since over fifty million people desire education presently.
Classrooms are very vital in schools,
the classrooms are constructed to suit the purpose of learning and also
considering climate of the people. eagle Hardt (1954) emphasized that
classrooms referred to as “Teaching laboratories”. Much importance should be
attached to facilities to enabler an imagined educational programme to be
achieved. This in short shows the importance of the provision of efficient and
effective facilities to help enhance a smooth and conducive teaching and
learning process to enable the production of effective manpower for the nation.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Inadequate facilities will surely
affect the smooth teaching and learning process in all schools. There are some
problems outlined below encountered in schools due to lack of adequate
facilities. It is known that the academic performance of each student depends
to a large extent on the facilities exposed to while learning but, when they
are lacking some problems is faced.
The first noted, peculiar problem
would be generated when there is no inclusive teaching and learning conduction.
The unconduciveness could be as a result of non availability of facilities like
table and chair in the classroom. There can never be way of concentration by
students. Students can not be expected to achieve any of the objectives at the
end of the lesson. If pupils have to share chairs with their mates, they would
be easily distracted among themselves and the class which is supposed to be
active3ly involved in the learning process turns out to be appealing and there
is enough discomfort for the day to discourage the interest of the pupils for
the whole day’s work.
Since the interest of the students are
very low, they are going to also have a low level of understanding, knowledge
to be imparted to the students would not be fully understood. There may also be
limitation in understanding. Laboratories are lacking in many schools and in
some schools were they can be found reagents and equipment are lacking. For
instance students in science class who
always learn in abstract, that is without practical knowledge, of what teacher
is saying cannot have effective learning and this will automatically affect
his/her academic performance. These lacks of laboratories have resulted to low
interest in science subjects today, such subjects are physics, chemistry and
biology.
Also the non availability of teaching
facilities like textbooks, buildings, chart, chalkboards etc. have hindered
students performance academically and this has resulted in their low interest
in most of the subjects offered in their various level in secondary schools.
Finally, it is observed that the
students supply their acquired knowledge in effectively since they have not
been able to be taught with the practical aspects but rather expressed to only
theoretical aspects of their field of specialization, if they have been
opportune to make use of facilities in different aspects they would have been
effectively appropriate.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The origin of using facilities to aid
learning has been the pre-occupation of the proponent of school facilities. The
studying of the teaching facilities in relation to students’ academic
performance is to know the importance of teaching facilities.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This study will be limited to a few
selected secondary schools under Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.
The study covers the following schools;
1. Akoko-Edo
Comprehensive College, Igarra.
2. Unity
Comprehensive College, Ibillo.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
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