Evaluation of Effects of Infrastructural Facilities on Students’ Academic Performance in Boarding and Non-Boarding Secondary Schools in Rivers State
Wokoma, Dagogo Samuel Allen & Fubara Inigbeelabia
Department of Educational Foundation, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Department Educational Foundations, Adult and Community Studies, Rivers State University, PH
Email: dagywoksy@gmail.com; inigbala-fubara@yahoo.com
Abstract: This study evaluates the effect of poor infrastructural facilities on students’ academic performance in Boarding and non-Boarding secondary schools in Rivers State. The study adopted correlation research design. The population of the study consisted of 922 respondents with a sample size of 277 respondents randomly selected from boarding and non-boarding secondary schools in Rivers State. A self-structured research instrument known as infrastructure and student academic performance inventory (I.S.A.P.I) was used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions while Pearson’s product moment correlation co-efficient (r) statistics was employed to test the hypothesis at 0.05 alpha level. It was concluded that poor state of infrastructural facilities affect students academic performance in Boarding and Non-Boarding Secondary Schools in Rivers State and there was significant relationship between poor state of infrastructural facilities and students academic performance. It was recommended that Government should support Boarding and Non-Boarding Secondary Schools by providing modern, relevant and adequate teaching and learning facilities.
Keywords: Evaluation, Infrastructural Facilities, Academic Performance, Boarding, Non-Boarding, Secondary School.
