SCHOOL TYPE AND SCHOOL LOCATION AS PREDICTORS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS
SCHOOL TYPE AND SCHOOL LOCATION AS PREDICTORS OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING OUTCOMES IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Summary/Abstract: This study investigated the effect of school types and locations on students’ learning outcomes in southwest Nigerian secondary schools. The study was a descriptive research of the survey type. The sample for this study was 1650 respondents comprising of 150 Principals and 1500 students from 150 secondary schools selected for the study. Two sets of instruments were used to collect relevant data from the subjects. The first instrument was tagged “Questionnaire on School Plants (QSP) while the second instrument was tagged Affective and Psychomotor Domain Questionnaire (APDQ). The reliability coefficient for each section was as follows: section C (0.85), section D (0.82), section E (0.72), section F (0.85), section G (0.74) and section H (0.87) for School plants instrument. The Affective and Psychomotor Domain instrument had a reliability coefficient of 0.77. Data collected were analyzed using percentage score, multiple regression, step-wise regression, F-ratio Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test statistics. All the hypotheses generated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was no significant difference between rural and urban areas and students’ learning outcomes (with t-cal 0.2, P>0.05). There was significant difference in students learning outcomes between private and public schools (with t-cal 2.11, P<0.05). Governments should continue to lay more emphasis on some private and public- school partnership in order to improve the students’ learning outcomes.

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