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ABSTRACT
Students' discipline is critical to the attainment of positive school outcomes. However, learning schools have been plagued with cases of students’ poor performances which undermine quality education. This study sought to investigate the influence ofphysics laboratory facilities on teaching and learning in senior secondary school in Egor Local Government area, Edo state. The purpose of the study were: To examine if there is adequate laboratory facilities for teaching Physics in senior secondary schools, to determine student usage of physics laboratory facilities in regard to their performance in physics test and to identify the relationship betwe en available facilities in the laboratory and performance in Physics .
Survey research design was employed to obtain students responses. The population of this study comprises of all the 6 senior public secondary schools and 146 private senior secondary school. Simple random sampling technique was adopted, in which 15 students were randomly selected from each school to form a total of 45 students for the study. Subsequently, the students were subdivided into three equal groups. The research instruments for this study are two instruments named physics laboratory facility checklist and a physics achievement test. The first instrument which is a checklist, sought information on availability of physics facilities and the second instrument is a physics achievement test constructed to examine whether the availability of physics have any effect on the students’ performance in physics.
Findings shows that 73% of students in school 2 which has a high availability of physics learning laboratory facilities performed better in the physics achievement test as only 14% of students in school 1 with a less availability of physics learning laboratory facilities passed the physics achievement test. The result agrees with the observation by Diana (2013),that laboratory apparatus and other learning resources contribute significantly to the performances of learning in physics assessment.
