Infrastructural amenities as Correlate of Academic Performance in Secondary Schools in Rivers East, Nigeria

Abstract

The study determined the relationship between school basic infrastructural amenities and academic performance of students in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers State East Senatorial District,Nigeria. The study was guided by two specific objectives, two research questions and two null hypotheses. The correlation research design was used. The population of this study was 23,670 Senior Secondary students. The sample size of 1142 respondents were drawn from the population of the study. The multi stage sampling technique was used in this study. The instruments developed by the researcher for data collection were Achievement Tests' Items (ATI) on Biology and English Language and Questionnaire which was titled “Infrastructural Basic Amenities Questionnaire (IBAQ) The instruments IBAQ and ATI reliability were tested using Cronbach Alpha and Kuder Richardson Statistical tool which yielded reliability coefficients of 0.79 and 0.71 respectively. The study used Simple Linear Regression Statistic for data analysis. The R-value was used to answer the rsearchquestions,while the F-value was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed very high significant extent of relationship between all the variables of Infrastructural Basic Amenities (classroom and science practical equipments) and academic performance of students in the study area. The relationships were significant. The researcher concluded that relationship exist between Infrastructural basic infrastructural amenities and academic performance of students in the study area. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that government should specifically allocate funds for erecting adequate classrooms for learning, while the school principals should also ensure they recommend lacked science practical equipments in schools as to enhanceacademic performance of students