EFFECT OF SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN OYO EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF OYO STATE NIGERIA

Abstract

The school environment entails the school structures and personnel available in any school which is believed to go a long way in shaping the academic performance of school hearing impaired pupils. There is no gainsaying therefore that when school facilities are adequately in place, pupils’ cognitive areas of knowledge, abilities and skills that are necessary for academic achievement will be developed. Moreover, the development of the affective and psychomotor domain is also facilitated by the presence of necessary and relevant school facilities. In order to adequately get information for the study, fifty hearing impaired pupils were randomly selected from two basic schools in Oyo metropolis. The T-test of ANOVA was used to analyze the result from the study. Among others, the result shows a coefficient of multiple correlation (R = .321 and a multiple R² of 0.122. This means that 78.5% of the variance is accounted for by three predictor variables when taken together. The table also shows that the analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the regression yielded a F-ratio of (F_(3.496) = 165.211, P<0.05). This implies that the joint contribution of the independent variables to the dependent variable was significant and that other variables not included in this model may have accounted for the variance. It was therefore concluded that for a school to have a high educational standard which its product will be worthwhile and worldly acknowledged as the best of its kinds, it must have a good location, standard building, fascinating school and library facilities which all form the school environment, that will advertise it to parents, guardians and visitors. Among others, it was recommended that School environment should be made appropriate for learning in order to encourage students’ academic performance.