The Impact of School Facilities and Secondary School Teachers’ Job Productivity
Chapter One
Objective of the study
Objectives of the study are;
- To ascertain the relationship between school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity
- To ascertain the impact of school facilities on academic performance of student
- To ascertain the influence of school facilities on the general administration of the school.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework of this study is expatiated under the following headings that includes; concept of school facilities, teaching facilities, welfare/health facilities, sport facilities and recreational facilities
School facilities
The term school facilities refers to the school site, the buildings, the playgrounds, the equipment and other material resources provided in the school for effective teaching and learning operations. School facilities can be defined as comprising of location, weather, lighting, ventilation, floor, space per pupil, health, and safety conditions, play areas, cafeteria and library Also, Ogbaodo (2004) considers school facilities as synonymous with educational facilities which includes buildings such as classrooms, assembly halls, libraries, laboratories ,workshop and instructional, materials. 15 Similarly, Oyedeji in Durosaro and Ogunsaju(2002) defines school facilities to include the site, the building and other infrastructures. They went further to say that school facility embraces permanent and semi-permanent structures which includes items such as machines, laboratory equipment, the chalk board and office assistances tools such as brooms and cleaning materials. According to Abraham (2003), school facilities mean all physical facilities and equipment within the school, which are used by members of the school community. All the physical structures in the school fall within this category. Facilities are plants (buildings) equipment, materials (Ehiemetalor, 2001). Whereas, school buildings according to Olutola (2010) include classroom, dormitories, libraries and laboratory buildings, staff rooms, teachers‘ quarters, examination halls and administrative buildings; educational equipment include such items as machines, audio-visual materials, chalkboards, cleaner‘s tools and workshop equipment. Osahon (2000) provides a much more comprehensive list of educational facilities and grouped them into two viz:
1) School building: These are tangible structures, which serves as shelter for educational activities. They include among others, classrooms, laboratories, workshops, teachers‘ common rooms/offices, toilets, rest rooms, reading rooms, dispensaries, libraries, hostels/dormitories, dining halls, assembly hall, staff quarters.
2) Equipment: School equipment refers to facilities or outputs such as machine and tools, which ease the operation of academic activities. Various equipment‘s are required in:
- a) Classrooms: For example, desks, chairs, blackboards, cupboards, shelves, dusting Dusters, wash hand basins, napkins, teaching aids.
- b) Laboratories: For example, physics, chemistry, biology, agricultural science, languages, Geography.
c) Workshop: For example, woodwork, metal works machineries, electronics /electrical, business studies. d) Sports/games: For example, football, table tennis, volley ball, net ball, hockey, tourniquet,Short put, high jump stands/crossbars, javelin, hurdles, trophies, jersey, bells, notice boards, electric generator, typewriters, photosetting machines, computers .
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to the impact of school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
(i)Primary source and
(ii)Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information the impact of school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity. 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state was selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain the impact of school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of the impact of school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity
Summary
This study was on the impact of school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity. Five objectives were raised which included: To ascertain the relationship between school facilities and secondary school teachers job productivity, to ascertain the impact of school facilities on academic performance of student and to ascertain influence of school facilities on the general administration of the school.. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staff of selected secondary schools in Uyo. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up principals, teachers, senior staff and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
On the basis of the findings, the study concluded that:
- most of the schools did not have sufficient teaching facilities, but the available ones have great impact on the students‘ academic performance such as flips chart, videos CD players, and models
- learning facilities have been described as an effective tool for educational development in general, had a positive impact on the students‘ academic performance. Study also identified that it is the government that shows negative attitudes on the adequate provision of learning facilities. Schools managers play their parts only when there is adequate provision of these facilities
- health facilities such as sick bay, toiletries, and first aid had positive impact on the students‘ academic performance. It was revealed that some of these facilities are not adequate;
Recommendation
- school administrators and government urgently need to upgrade teaching facilities to meet up with modern demands of secondary school education. Digital facilities should be provided in schools. While the schools managers on their part should also try to maintain and manage flip chart, models, public address system, slide picture and projector facilities provided in the school
- effort should be made my alumni to support the school with some learning facilities such as laboratory, workshop, and furniture among others
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