SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLINESS AS DETERMINANT OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ATTITUDE TO SCHOOLING AND ACHIEVEMENT IN YORUBA LANGUAGE IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
The study examined the influence of school Compound, Nature of classroom, Instructional learning materials, Participation in co-curricular activities on Students attitude to schooling and Yoruba achievement in Osun State. Environmental friendliness conditions; School compound, nature of classroom, instructional learning material and Participation in co curricular activities and level of students Yoruba achievement and Students attitude to schooling were also examined. The study was hinged on Aristotle’s Dualistic Theory of Motivation, while the survey design was adopted. Simple random sampling was used to select five local government areas from the three educational districts in Osun State. Ten public secondary schools were randomly selected from each of the selected Local Government Areas to make up of 50 schools. An intact class was used in each of the selected schools .In all, 500 students participated in the study. The instruments used were Attitude to Schooling Questionnaire (r= .85), Yoruba Achievement Test (r= .82) and Environmental Friendliness of Schools Assessment, Checklist consisting of School Compound (r= .75), Participation in Co-curricular Activities (r= .80), Nature of Classroom (r= .70) and Teaching/Material (r=.80). The data were analyzed using percentages, mean, standard deviation and multiple regressions at p< .05. The students’ performance in the Yoruba achievement (42.15%) was poor. The environmental friendliness conditions of SC (88.0%), NC (86.0%) and PCA (86.0%) were satisfactory, while TLM was not. The composite effects of environmental friendliness variables on YA (F(4; 1608)=3.83 Adj.R²= .01) and SAS (F(4; 1608)=4.67; Adj.R²=.01) were significant, accounting for 1.0% each of their variances. The relative contributions of SC (β=.15; t=5.78) and NC (β=-.09; t=3.39) to SAS were significant, while SC did not contribute significantly. The school compound and nature of the classroom enhanced students’ academic achievement in Yoruba Language while participation in co-curricular activities, the nature of the classroom and teaching/learning materials also enhanced students’ attitude to schooling. Stakeholders in secondary education should provide stimulating classrooms and modern resources to schools to make teaching and learning more appealing.
Keywords
School environment, attitude, achievement, Yoruba Language
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