School Plant and Students’ Academic Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Umuahia Educational Zone, Abia State Nigeria

David Onyemaechi Ekeh, Aloysius Orogwu Alo, Caroline O. Nweke, Laetitia Ugochi Nnadede

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This study investigated the relationship between school plant and students’ academic performance in public secondary schools within the Umuahia Educational Zone of Abia State, Nigeria. The research was guided by two research questions and two null hypotheses. A descriptive survey design was adopted, utilizing random sampling techniques. The study population comprised all 46 public secondary schools in the zone, with a total of 3,300 Senior Secondary School II (SS2) students (SEMB, 2022). A sample of 345 respondents was selected using Taro Yamane’s formula. Data were collected through a researcher-developed questionnaire, which was duly validated. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach’s alpha, yielding a coefficient of 0.79. The questionnaire was administered and retrieved by the researcher with the assistance of five research assistants, achieving a response rate of 98.3%. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the research questions, while the t-test was employed to test the hypotheses at the 0.05 level of significance.


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