AVAILABILITY OF TEACHERS AND LABORATORY FACILITIES AND THE LEARNING OF BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
AVAILABILITY OF TEACHERS AND LABORATORY FACILITIES AND THE LEARNING OF BIOLOGY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
ABSTRACT
This research was carried out to examine
the availability of teachers and laboratory facilities and the learning of biology
in secondary schools in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area. Two research questions
were formulated to guide the study ......................
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The nation’s overall development is inextricably tied to its educational system.
This is because education is a light that shows humankind the right direction
to surge as well as being an engine for the growth and progress of any society.
Education does not only impart knowledge, skills, and inculcate values, but it
also responsible for building human capital which breeds, drives and set technological
innovation and economic growth (Osakinle, 2010). Education in its broadest
meaning is any process by which an individual gains knowledge, develops attitudes,
and skills, which help the students to be a better person in society. It is
an experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical
ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by
which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, values, skills
and tradition from one generation to another generation (Holmes, 2013).
These benefits of education can only be
achieved when the school environment is encouraging. Sadler (2016) opined that,
that students are individuals who accumulate knowledge with the help of the
teachers in a motivating and encouraging school environment. The learning
experience accumulated in a sound school environment serves as a bridge to
overcome life’s circumstances and eventually becomes a more effective member of society. With this view, there is a need to introduce good quality into the
school system by creating a sound and conducive environment for the teaching and
learning process.
Grant
(2015) also asserted that for learning to take place and the performance of
students to be enhanced, the school must be stimulating and encouraging. The school environment must be inviting or welcoming, conducive and accommodating
for adequate and effective learning to take place.
Essien
(2012) Opined that a conducive and encouraging learning environment refers to
the school system where teachers are adequately available, and also laboratory
facilities are available to a very great extent. Moreover, the school library needs
to be well equipped, and the school building must be in good condition with enough
classrooms. This is because dilapidated buildings, which lack mental
stimulating facilities, will be destructive to students’ academic performance.
It has been proved that students that are taught in a stimulating environment
with well-equipped laboratories, rich instructional aids, and professionally
qualified teachers performed significantly better than those taught in a poor
learning environment.
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However,
Marsden (2015) opined that the extent to which students learning could be
enhanced depends on certain factors such as school facilities, quality, and
available teachers, laboratory facilities availability. It is believed that a well-planned
Schools with these variables will gear up expected outcomes of educational and
economic emancipation effective teaching and learning process, and academic
performance of the students.
Laboratories
have been found to be the scientist workshops where practical activities are
conducted to enhance meaningful learning of science concept and theories
(Seweje, 2013). It has also been found to be a primary vehicle for promoting
formal reasoning skills, and students understanding, thereby enhancing desired
learning outcome in students (Ogunleye, 2012). Laboratory facilities therefore
refer to those tools or equipment found in the laboratories which help in
conducting practical activities in the school such facilities include; Bunsen
Burners, Tongs, Thermometers, Beam Balance, Spatulas, Ring and Ring Stands,
Clamps, Burets, Pipettes, Droppers, Volumetric Flacks, Graduated Cylinder,
Microscope, Funnels, Watch Glasses, Test Tube, Boiling Flasks, Beakers, Conical
Flasks, Safety Equipment, Model of Skeletal System and so on.
On
the other hand, in the school system, teachers are regarded as the most
imperative school-based factors that influence students’ achievement levels.
That is the reason it is stated in the national policy of education that NO
educational system can rise above the quality of its teachers. This means that the quality of education is a function of the quality of teachers. Thus for effective
implementation of any educational curriculum, there must be the availability of
quality teachers.
Based
In this background, the researcher considered it necessary to examine the
availability of teachers and laboratory facilities on the learning of Biology
in secondary schools in the Nsit Ibom Local Government Area.
1.2 Statement of the Problems
Most
secondary schools in Nigeria performed poorly in most of the science subjects
like physics, chemistry, and Biology because practical is no longer done in the
right way. Sometimes maybe lack funds to build the school practical hall
with the necessary equipment/facilities needed for a good study environment.
These
problems have long been going on, students admitted into senior secondary
schools with all the payment made for the purpose of a good practical class for
the students. In the long run, these students will be waiting for practical but
no one to teach them due to a lack of teachers. Sometimes when the students come
to practical classes, the facilities in the laboratory will not be enough.
Based
on these problems, the researcher considered it necessary to examine the
availability of teachers and laboratory facilities on the learning of Biology
in secondary schools in Nsit Ibom Local Government Area.
1.3 Purpose
of the Study
The main purpose of
this study was to examine the availability of teachers and laboratory
facilities and the learning of Biology in secondary schools...
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