标题：Influence of School Plant on Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Economics in Ile-Oluji Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria
期刊名称：Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
印刷版ISSN：2350-7756
电子版ISSN：2350-8442
出版年度：2017
卷号：5
期号：2(Part II)
页码：30-35
出版社：Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas
摘要：The study investigated the influence of school plant on students' academic performance in Economics in secondary schools in Ile-Oluji Okeigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Ex-post facto research design was adopted in the study. One thousand, three hundred and forty two (1342) students offering Economics, representing 29.0% of the 4632 Senior Secondary School (SSS) students were drawn as sample. A checklist titled School Plant Availability Checklist (SPLAC) with a cronbach alpha (α) of 0.73 was used in the study. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that educational equipment, buildings and playgrounds have individual significant influence on students' academic performance in Economics (F cal =140.776; 342.606; 24.932, p<0.01) respectively. Interaction effect among components of the school plant (educational equipment, buildings and playgrounds) contributed most to students' academic performance (F cal = 82.941; p<0.01). This is followed by the interaction between building and playgrounds (F cal =45.792; p<0.01), educational equipment and buildings (F cal =13.767; p<0.01) and educational equipment and playgrounds (F cal = 6.245; p<0.01). The R-squared coefficient (.892) showed that the components jointly predict 89.2% of any significant variation in students' academic performance in Economics. It was recommended that the state government should adequately inform and sensitize principals on the importance of school plant in school goal achievement.
