EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE AS PREDICTOR OF STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS

Abstract

Mathematics lessons have been described as boring, uninteresting, and unchallenging because of inadequate use of educational resources. It was revealed that a lot of students perform below average in external examinations in secondary schools in mathematics. Thus, this study critically examined the influence of Educational Resources on the academic achievement of secondary school students in mathematics. Two hypotheses were tested. A survey research design was used, and the population of the study comprised all secondary schools in Oyo State. A simple random sampling technique was used to select six local government areas, two schools from each of the LGA and twenty students from each school. Schools were stratified into two, schools with educational media and schools without. Two self-designed instruments were used for data collection. The study revealed that there is a correlation between the use of educational resources and academic performance (r =.002, p<=0.05) and there is a significant difference between the performance of students in schools with educational resources and schools without educational resources. It was recommended that the Provision of necessary education resource material should be encouraged in schools to enhance effective teaching and learning of mathematics and the Government should increase funding for the entire educational sector with particular emphasis on the acquisition of educational resources.