Lecturer’s Industrial Actions and Environmental Education Student’s Academic Performance in the University of Calabar, Nigeria

Abstract

This study is concerned about how lecturer’s industrial action affects Environmental Education student’s academic performance in the University of Calabar. The study design is the survey inferential research design, the study is located in the Department of Environmental Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of undergraduate students, post graduate students and lecturers in the Department of Environmental Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria. A sample of two hundred and fifty respondents was selected from among undergraduate and post graduate students and lecturers in the Department of Environmental Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria. The instrument for data collection is a structured question, divided into two section, Section A is for respondent’s demographic characteristics, while Section B is to elicits response based on the variables under study. The instrument was administered by the researchers and same collected back. There was 100% return rate. After coding, simple percentage was used to analyze data to answer the research questions, while Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis was used to test the relationship between lecturer’s industrial action and Environmental Education student’s academic performance in the University of Calabar. A comparison of the average scores of students was again carried out between 2013-2018, the result shows that lecturer’s industrial action affects student’s academic performance. The result listed some causes of lecturer’s industrial action, their effects on school academic calendar and curriculum coverage and also listed the effects on student’s academic performance. It was discovered that lecturer’s industrial action does significantly influence Environmental Education student’s academic performance negatively. It was recommended among that’s that government should try as much as possible to keep to their terms of agreement with ASUU, so that they can reduce or minimize lecturer’s industrial action in our university system.

Keywords: Industrial actions, academic calendar, curriculum content, student’s academic performance, agreement, memorandum of understanding and memorandum of implementation, etc

DOI: 10.7176/CER/11-7-05

Publication date: August 31^st 2019