IMPACT OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF PUPILS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS MAIDUGURI METROPOLITAN COUNCIL (MMC) BORNO STATE, NIGERIA

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of learning environment on the academic performance of pupils in primary schools in MMC Borno state, Nigeria. Four (4) objectives which include to determine the impact of class room building on the academic performance of pupils in MMC Borno State, to determine the impact of classroom furniture on the academic performance of pupils, and also to determine the impact of instructional material on the academic performance of pupils were formed to guide the study, the research design is ex- post facto, four (4) research questions were formulated in line with the objective purposive sampling technique was used to select one renovated and one dilapidated schools. Thereafter, one large and small class size of primary four (4) were selected from two of the schools giving a total of two (2) intact classes and pupils from these classes formed the sample size of 100 for this study. The research instrument is checklist and proforma involve; mean, standard, deviation and t-test was used for both adequate and in-adequate academic learning environment independent t-test was used to test the research question at 0.05 level of significance, while mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions. Findings revealed that there was no significant difference in the academic performance between adequate and in-adequate learning environment. This showed that a classroom building, class with adequate and inadequate furniture, class with large and small class population and the use of instructional materials were found to have no significant impact on the academic performance of pupils in primary school in MMC Borno State. Based on the findings of the study, the research concludes that conducive learning environment is very essential for effective teaching and learning and recommendations were made among which includes that government and other education stakeholders should make concerned efforts to build more classrooms in primary schools that would help to reduce problem of overcrowding and create enabling teaching and learning environment, that adequate furniture should be provided and pupils should be oriented on how to maintain these facilities because most a times pupils destroy these facilities by themselves.