EDUCATIONAL FACILITY AND SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN JUNIOR WAEC IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out on the educational facility and social studies students’ performance in junior WAEC in junior secondary school using selected junior secondary schools in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State as case study. To achieve these 3 research hypotheses were formulated. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of students and teachers of selected schools in Alimosho local government area of Lagos State. In determining the sample size, the researcher conveniently selected 200 respondents while one hundred and fifty were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables and percentage. While the hypotheses were tested using Chi-square statistical tool, SPSS v23. The result of the findings reveals that the availability of school facilities has a positive effect on students’ academic performance, more so, the findings shows that there is no adequate provision of school facilities in secondary schools and there is a significant difference in students performance in junior WAEC between students in schools with adequate facilities and schools with inadequate facilities. In regard to the findings, the study recommends that the school counsellor in collaboration with the administrative unit and government should provide standard classroom building and conducive environment for teaching and learning process, apart from school and public libraries, education resource centres should be established by government such as teacher centres and audio visual centres. Teachers’ centres could serve as place where teachers could work together in groups to generate ideas that would make them more competent in the profession. Also teachers should be made to use instructional facilities while teaching and where they are not available improvisation should be adopted and it could be concluded that government did not inject facilities into public schools when compared with facilities available in private schools. Therefore, government should give priority to public schools in the provision of facilities. Lastly, computer education and training should be made available and mandatory in the school system, right from the primary to tertiary level of education. ICT programme should be adequately implemented in all school.