Environmental Effect on Students’ Academic Performance in Public and Private Secondary Schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria
Sunday Yeduma Ben; Muazu Muhammad Habibu & Aboki Mustapha Bello
Department of Educational Psychology
Federal College of Education, Yola
Email: habibufceyola@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The study investigated the effect of school environment on students’ academic performance in public and private secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses
guided the study. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised 5110 teachers from 297 public/private secondary schools in Adamawa State. 400 teachers from 22
public/private secondary schools constituted the sample of the study. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample size. A four point structured 15-item rating scale questionnaire titled School Environment Questionnaire (SEQ) was constructed by the researchers and used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer research questions while chi-square (x2) test of goodness of fit was used to test the hypotheses at level of significance 0.005. The study revealed that there was a significant influence of infrastructural facilities, class-size and school location on students’ academic performance in both public/private secondary schools in Adamawa state, Nigeria. It was recommended among other things that All schools communities should partner with their schools and provide infrastructural facilities that would complement the effort of the
government in enhancing quality education.
