Factors affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary Schools in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria

Factors affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary Schools in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria

¹Markus Kwaji; ²Aginde Terdoo David; ³Ode Sunday Adikpe & ⁴Sylvester Igwe Sylvester

^1,2,3Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Benue State University, Makurdi

⁴Department of Technology Education, School of Technology and Science Education, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

Email:marcuskhore@gmail.com,terdoodavid22@gmail.com,odesundayadikpe@gmail.com, sylvester.sylvester01@yahoo.com

Corresponding Author:Markus Kwaji

ABSTRACT

The study examined the factors affecting the standard of education in public schools. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and was carried out in Gboko Local Government of Benue State. The population of this study was 264 respondents. 24 primary schools out of 173 were sampled. A 12-item structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled “Factors Affecting the Standard of Education in Public Primary in Gboko Local Government” was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts and a reliability of 0.83 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha Correlation Co-efficient which proved the instrument was reliable to be used for fieldwork. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions whereby a mean cut-off point of 3.50 was used for decision making. From the result obtained, the study concludes that different factors affect the standard of education in public primary schools in the region ranging from teachers, parents, pupils to government factor. The study also found remedies such as an adequate number of teachers, regular payment of teacher’s salary, adequate allocation of funds for school facilities, etc. The study recommends among others that stakeholders of public primary schools that are the government, parents, and teachers should play their role seriously in order to improve the condition of public primary schools structurally, morally and otherwise. The government should avoid playing politics with teacher’s welfare. Adequate funds should be allocated for schools facilities in public primary schools to maintain the standard of education.Keywords: Standard of education, Educational factors, Gboko local government