Assessment of the availability of Facilities and Equipment Influencing the Implementation of Secondary School Physical Education Curriculum in Nigeria

Abstract

Curriculum implementation in Secondary Schools in Nigeria focuses on the success of that process of putting curriculum in action for achieving the set goals. The purpose of this study was to assess the availability of facilities and equipment influencing
secondary schools physical education curriculum in Nigeria. Survey research design (Ex- post facto) was used for this study. To achieve this, purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples from the Six {6} Geo-political zones and the
respondents consisted of heads of Physical Education Teachers in the Public and Private Secondary Schools. The population of the study was all secondary schools comprising fifty four thousand Five hundred and twenty- one (54,521) students with sample size of Six hundred and fifty-six (656). The data collected were statistically analysed by using inferential statistics of One Sample t- test to test the hypothesis. The results of the findings showed that Physical Education facilities and equipment influence the implementation of secondary schools Physical Education curriculum in Nigeria with t- Cal of 3.170 and P val of 0.031. The researcher recommended that Federal Ministry of Education in conjunction with the States Ministry of Education should provide physical education facilities and equipment for the implementation of Physical Education curriculum in Secondary Schools in Nigeria.