Correlates of School Plant Provision and Students’ Academic Performance in Government Technical Colleges in South West, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between school plant provision and students’ academic performance in Government Technical Colleges in South West, Nigeria. One research question as well as one hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive, correlational, and ex-post facto research designs were adopted by the study. Two research instruments comprising test item and checklist were used to gather data through both primary and secondary sources. The test item comprised of a Records Observation Format (ROF) which was used to collect data on students’ academic performances in the National Business and Technical Education Board (NABTEB) examinations for the years 2014 to 2018, while the checklist was administered to 400 students in the 11 sampled Government Technical Colleges in South West, Nigeria out of a total population of 34 colleges. Data collected were analysed to answer the research question using the descriptive statistics of mean and simple percentage, while the hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance, using the inferential statistics of Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 version for windows. The finding of the study showed that in the Government Technical Colleges in South West, Nigeria, there is no statistical significant relationship between school plant provision and students’ academic performance. Also, the states of school plant provision in the colleges were poor considering the mean percentages of provision adequacies and utilisation optimalities recorded. The findings of this study therefore implied that for the results of examinations of the students to have been averagely good even with the worrisome state of plant in their various colleges except for few of the colleges where renovation of various forms have been done, an adequate provision of school plant would have resulted into much better performance than already seen. This would translate into turning out graduates who could really stand on their own having been properly engaged in practical aspects of their trades which would ensure their competencies for self-reliance.

Keywords: School Plant, School Plant Provision, School Plant Utilisation, General School Plant, Academic Performance, Government Technical Colleges.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-11-04

Publication date: April 30^th 2021