Productivity of Secondary Education in Lagos State: Implication for Educational Planning and Policy
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1999
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Adekoya, S.O
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The primary purposes of the study were to identify and measure the contributions of the key resources variables to the production of secondary education and to determine the extent of educational wastage in Lagos State. The increasing total and unit costs of education in the face of a noticeable decline in its quality as measured by performances of students in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) call for an objective investigation into the internal economics of secondary education in Nigeria at the time of the study. Attention was focused on the Junior/Senior Secondary education output measured in students’ performance in the SSCE between 1986 and 1996, a period of ten years in Lagos State. Fifty-five public secondary schools constituted the sample. The schools were selected by stratified random sampling technique to include rural and urban, old and new generation schools, single sex and co-educational schools, etc. Questionnaires and interviews provided data in addition to school records. Chi-Square, ttest, ANOVA, and Correlation Coefficient statistics were used to analyse the data. The study found that students in urban secondary schools performed better in their SSC Examinations in Lagos States. Students in the single sex schools tended to perform better than their counterparts in co-educational schools. Educational productivity in the old generation schools was better than the new generation secondary schools in Lagos State. Smaller schools (interms of population) performed better than the larger schools. School productivity did not correlate significantly with any of the organizational inputs (such as enrolment, and class size). Secondary schools productivity was not significantly related to cost-related inputs. Wastage rates were higher among female students than males. The four identified cohorts of student did not differ in the number of student-years spent in the secondary schools. Wastage (repetition, dropout and failure) did not differ significantly between the urban and rural schools in Lagos State. Substantial amount of money was wasted on repetition, dropout and failure in the Secondary Schools sampled. Recommendations to stem the wastage incidence include compulsory secondary education, encouragement for further education, establishment of technical goals and adult education services in every local government area of the state to cater for the psycho-social problems facing academic casualties.
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A Thesis Submitted to the School of Postgraduate Studies, University of Lagos
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Productivity , Planning , Secondary School , Students
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Adekoya, S.O (1999). Productivity of Secondary Education in Lagos State: Implication for Educational Planning and Policy. A Thesis Submitted to University of Lagos School of Postgraduate Studies Phd Thesis and Dissertation, 264pp.