Adequacy and Effective Utilization of Laboratory Equipment as Predictors of Secondary School Students’ Learning Outcome in Edo North Senatorial District, Nigeria
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Adequacy, Effective Utilization, Laboratory, Equipment, Predictors, Students Learning OutcomeAbstract
This study examined the adequacy and effective utilization of laboratory equipment as predictors of secondary school students learning outcome in Edo North Senatorial District, Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study while one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study was anchored on theory of constructivism developed by Piaget (1937). The study adopted the correlational research design. The population of this study comprised 26, 371 senior secondary school students in all the public secondary schools in Edo North Senatorial District, Nigeria. One thousand three hundred and twenty (1,320) senior secondary school students representing 5% of the entire population of students was drawn from the District. The simple random sampling technique was used to draw the 5% of the students. The data for this study were collected using two instruments namely: Adequacy and Utilization of Laboratory Equipment Checklist (AUTLEC) and Students’ Academic Performance Inventory (SAPI). The academic performance was based on WASCE result for 2017/2018 school year in Chemistry, Physics and Biology. The data obtained were analyzed with Percentages and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis (MLRA). The study revealed that the level of adequacy of laboratory equipment was very low, the level of utilization of laboratory equipment was very low and the availability and utilization of laboratory equipment predicted secondary school students’ learning outcome in Chemistry, Physics and Biology in public secondary schools in Edo North Senatorial District, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommended among others that the government and other stakeholders of the education industry should collaborate to equip public schools with all the necessary and required laboratory equipment to boost students’ interest in science based subjects and to improve on their learning outcome.
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