INFLUENCE OF AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS STUDENTS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA
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The study was designed to assess the Influence of Availability and Utilization of School Facilities on the Academic Performance of Home Economics students in Junior Secondary School in Kaduna State, Nigeria. In this perspective, Four (4) Research questions and Four (4) Null hypotheses guided the study. Among the objectives were: to examine the influence of availability and utilization of Home Economics laboratory facilities on students‟ academic performance. Ex-post research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study comprised of 89,830 students in Kaduna state, offering Home Economics. The samples size for the study was 432 drawn from 24 junior secondary offering Home Economics. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select the sample size for the study. The instruments used for data collection was the School Facility Descriptive Questionnaire (SFDQ) designed by the researcher, Availability and Utilization of School Facilities Checklist and Home Economics Achievement Score (student‟s JSSCE records archive from 2012-2016). The instruments were validated by three experts who were senior lecturers in the Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State. 205 instruments were pilot tested in Government Secondary School (Junior) Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State. The data obtained from the pilot test was subjected to Cronbach Alpha reliability test. Reliability coefficient of 0.850 was obtained. The instruments were administered to respondents in their respective schools. Data was analyzed using Frequency Count, Percentages and Mean for answering research questions, while Chi-square and ANOVA were used test the four hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the Availability of school facilities (library, Home Economics laboratory) and Recommended Home Economics textbooks has positive influence on the academic performance of Junior Secondary School students offering Home Economics in Kaduna State. Students‟ utilization of school facilities (library, Home Economics laboratory) and Recommended Home Economics textbooks also has significant positive influence on academic performance of Home Economics students in Junior Secondary School. It was concluded that availability and utilization of school library, Home Economics laboratory and Recommended Home Economics textbooks significantly influence the academic performance of Home Economics students in Junior Secondary School in Kaduna state. Based on the findings of the research, it was recommended among others that Efforts should be made by the governmental and non-governmental organizations together with the general public to provide adequate School Facilities and Recommended Home Economics Textbooks for secondary schools to enhance the teaching and learning of Home Economics in junior Secondary school in Kaduna State.
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