ACCENTUATING PRODUCTIVITY READING IN STUDENTS THROUGH INFORMATION RESOURCES: A SURVEY OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MINNA, NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper examined how productive reading could receive a boost through the provision of information resources among the secondary schools students in Minna, Nigeria. The research design for the study was survey. Purposive (judgmental) quota stratified random sampling technique was used to select 10 out of 75 secondary schools in Minna – five public and five private. The selected schools are: St Clement Secondary School, Gbaiko; Mawo International Schools, Bosso; Bosso Secondary School, Bosso; Ahmadu Bahago Secondary School, Chanchaga; Government Secondary School, Bosso; Government Day Secondary School, Chanchaga; Government Girls Secondary School, Chanchaga; Baptist Secondary School, Bosso; Brighter International School, Chanchaga; and Himma Internatinal School, Bosso. The self designed research instrument tagged “Accentuating Productive Reading Questionnaire” (APRQ) with the reliability coefficient of r=0.87 was used by the researchers to collect data for the study. Thirty copies of the instruments were distributed in each of the 10 schools used for the study. Out of 300 copies of the distributed instrument, 270 copies (90%)were retrieved and used for the analysis. Simple descriptive statistical tools of frequency counts, percentages and table were used for data analyses. Part of the findings of the study is that 220 (81.5%) respondents placed high premium on visiting the libraries to avail themselves of the available information resources and that there is dearth of information resources in most of the pubic secondary schools compared with private schools. It is recommended that the parents and school authority should work as invincible team towards checking the malaise of over indulgence on entertainment gadgets especially as they affect the productivity of pupils in terms of reading and that the Parent Teacher Association (P.T.A.) of the surveyed schools should works as indivisible team in ensuring that relevant, current and up to date information material are supplied to the affected schools.