Availability, Quality, and Appropriateness of Instructional Facilities and Their Effects on the Performance of Nigerian Certificate in Education Graduates in Federal College of Education, Yola

This study is designed to assess the effects of the availability, quality, and appropriateness of instructional facilities on the performance of Nigerian Certificates in Education graduates in the Federal College of Education, Yola. Two research questions were raised to guide the conduct of the study. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprises all the college graduates from 2017 to 2022, lecturers, and laboratory technicians of the departments in the Federal College of Education, Yola. Due to the large number of college graduates from 2017 to 2022, lecturers and laboratory technicians in the individual departments in Federal College of Education, Yola, and the researchers selected a sample of 383 college graduates from 2017 to 2022, 69 lecturers and 23 laboratory technicians. The stratified, purposive, and simple random sampling (SRS) techniques were adopted to select the sampled population. The primary data used for the study was obtained through the use of a questionnaire designed by the researchers. The data collected for the study were analyzed using the simple percentage method of data analysis to analseze the respondent’s demographic data and to answer the research questions while ANOVA statistics was used to test the null and alternative hypotheses. The finding of the study revealed that the instructional facilities for teaching and learning in the Federal College of Education, Yola are to some extent available, qualitative, and highly appropriate to the level of the learners and relevant to the content of the courses where those instructional facilities are applied in teaching and learning. Similarly, the study concluded that teaching/learning facilities in the Federal College of Education, Yola has significant influence on the academic performance of the NCE graduates. Based on the above conclusions the paper recommended that the Government should provide facilities like modern laboratories and comfortable classrooms for better academic performance and the  government should strive and set aside a reasonable amount of the education budget which will be directed to improve and construct libraries in the college.