Infrastructural Facilities, Instructional Materials and Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Niger State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between infrastructural facilities, instructional materials and academic performance of secondary school students in Niger State, Nigeria. Two specific purposes, research questions and hypotheses were formulated in respect of the study. Descriptive correlational research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 49,983 SSS II students and 11,153 teachers. A sample of 381 and 357 for teachers and students respectively made up of 759 respondents was selected through the use of multi- stage sampling techniques. Questionnaire and Students’ Academic Performance Proforma were used to collect data for the study. Questionnaire was duly validated with reliability coefficient of 0.85. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data collected to answer the research questions while simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed among others that infrastructural facilities have high level contribution to academic performance of secondary school students in external examinations and infrastructural facilities have significant positive relationship with students’ academic performance in external examinations. Based on the findings, it was concluded that infrastructural facilities and instructional materials have significant positive relationship with students’ academic performance in external examinations. It was recommended among others that The Ministry of Education and indeed all stakeholders in education sector should work towards the provision of adequate infrastructural facilities like classrooms, libraries and information centres, technical workshops, multipurpose halls Laboratories and others, to enhance or improve students’ academic performance