EDUCATIONAL FACILITY AND SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN JUNIOR WAEC IN JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, ODEDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF OGUN STATE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the Problem

The items of the study are Educational facilities and social studies performance in Junior WAEC in Odeda Local Government Area Ogun State. Educational facilities are those essential resources that are needed for the effective operation and maintenance of any institution of the various uses, instructional materials, furniture, textbooks, equipment and all other infrastructures that are vital for the system. Although the subject matter has the connotation of performances facilities correlation, the objective goes beyond this. Anybody familiar with the recent educational development in Nigeria with readily appreciation not only the phenomenal growth of Nigeria educational system in all sphere but also with welcome the objective and philosophy of its policy on education granted. Before the government become interest in establishing schools and formulating of policies on educational system, the establishment of school was by missionary, religion’s body and some other voluntary agencies with the cooperation of the local people, few philanthropists and foreign benevolent (benefactors).

The instructional material for the system was very scarce and this affected the quantity of education. But the government established one are well equipped. Federal government strived as much as possible in provision to the sphere of education of both facilities and equipment to facilitate learning and could also be used to alleviate poor performances in social studies among junior secondary school students in Odeda Local government. Finally, the focus of this project is on previous and present government efforts through the educational facilities and awareness of parents toward the issue of their children performances in order to alleviate students’ poor performance in social studies even in other subjects in Odeda Local Government Junior secondary school examination result.

1.2 Purpose of the Study

The rational for this study established in the assumption that school can only fulfill their parts in the achievement of national objective by striving to produce high quality outputs. By the nature of the unfortunate situation existing in Nigeria today; school are bounded good or bad depending on the performance of students in their examination particularly on social studies. This study is design to:- a. Examine whether schools with adequate facilities do perform better in junior secondary school Examination especially in social studies. b. Determine whether supply to facilities for the effective learning will be necessary criteria for the achievement of students. c. Investigate what factors other than facilities that affect the result on their social studies. d. Make some recommendations towards the achievement of equalization status of school.

1.3 Research Questions

The following research questions were generated for the purpose of this study:- 1) Is there any improvement in the students’ performance in social studies when expose to educational facilities? 2) Are there government provisions for educational facilities in teaching social studies in Odeda local government of Ogun State? 3) Does the availabilities of educational facilities in teaching social studies arouse students interest towards the subject?