SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN GOVERNMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
There is growing assertion that environmental factors
have strong relationship with students’ academic achievement. The environmental
factors, which include the classrooms buildings, libraries resources, technical
workshops, laboratories resources, teachers’ quality, school location, teaching
methods, peers, etc. are variables that affect students’ academic achievement.
Therefore, Environmental factors remain an important area that should be
studied and well managed to enhance students’ academic performance. The issue
of poor academic performance of students in Nigeria has been of much concern to
the government, parents, teachers and even students themselves. The quality of
education not only depends on the teachers as reflected in the performance of
their duties but also in the effective co-ordination of the Environmental Resources Utilization (Ariyo, 2004).
Environmental factors also includes instructional spaces
planning, administrative places planning, accessories planning, spaces for
conveniences planning, circulation spaces planning, the teachers as well as the
students themselves are essential in the teaching learning process. The extent
to which students learning could be enhanced depends on the location within the
school compound, the structure of their classroom, availability of
instructional materials. It is believed that a well planned school will fear up
expected outcomes of education that will facilitate good social, political and
economic emancipation, effective for students (Akaeze, 2004).
The physical characteristics of the school have a
variety of effects on teachers, students and the learning process. Poor
lighting, noise, high levels of carbon-dioxide in classrooms and in
consistently temperature make teaching and learning difficult. Poor maintenance
and ineffective ventilation systems lead to poor health among students as well
as teachers, which leads to poor performance and higher absentee rates
(Balogun, 2002). These factors can adversely affect students’ behaviour and
lead to higher level of frustration among teachers and poor learning attitude
among students.
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Beyond the direct effects that poor facilities have on
students’ ability to learn, the combination of poor facilities which creates on
uncomfortable and uninvited workplace for teachers, combined frustrating
behaviour by students including poor concentration and hyperactivity, Lethargy
or apathy creates a stressful set of working conditions for teachers. Because
stress and job dissatisfaction are common pre-cursors to lower teacher
enthusiasm, it is was on this background that the resa\earch was interested to ascertain
the influence of environmental factor on students academic performance in Government in secondary school in Ini
Local Government Area.
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1.2 Statement of the problem
Environmental factors are an important aspect of
educational planning. Therefore, unless schools are well sited, builds
adequately constructed, equipment are adequately provided and maintained, much
teaching-learning may not take place. The high levels of students’ poor
academic performance have been linked to the availability of these facilities.
The students in some area performed better than students in other area. This
motivated the research to carryout a research work in other to find out the
cause of this declining performance of students in biology. Whether the
Environmental factors have any influence
of students academic performance in Government.
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1.3 Purpose of the study
The main purpose of this research work was to examine school
environmental factors and academic performance of students in Government in
secondary school in Ini Local Government Area:
Specifically,
the study sought to:.....................
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