The study investigated the provision of facilities as it relates to academic performance of students in agricultural science in Ekiti state of Nigeria between 1990 and 1997. School facilities have been observed as a potent factor to quantitative education. The importance to teaching and learning of the provision of adequate instructional facilities for education cannot be over-emphazed. The dictum that “teaching is inseparable from learning but learning is not separable from teaching” is that teachers do the teaching to make the students learn, but students can learn without the teachers. Also, still in the introductory section of this study, it identified the contributions of some elements that constituted these facilities and their impact on academic achievement of agricultural science students and other students in general. They are; Libraries, Textbooks, School buildings, Laboratories.

The study did not present clear cut research objectives. The objectives of this research are conspicuously missing and also research questions are not included even though the authors mentioned it but failed to state it. Rather, the study state one hypothesis and was not stated in a conventional manner which should include stating both null (H0) and alternative hypothesis (H1).

The research design for this study was basically descriptive survey design of the ex-post facto type and the research instrument was Student and Teacher Questionnaire on Facilities (STQF) designed by the researchers. It has section A with seven items dealing with profile of the respondents such as gender, age, school type (rural/urban), and grade among others. Section B has 12 items that measured availability of facilities like laboratories, school building, textbooks and libraries. The respondents were asked to respond to the questions on a four point Likert scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree.

The result of the only hypothesis for this study was not included in this paper. The results of the findings of this research was well presented and discussed extensively using tables containing valuable data from this findings but the results of this research findings discussed here should have been allowed to follow along side each discussion to really support the discussion of the research findings and to maintain a logical flow of thought of the researchers and also bring so much clarity on the part of the readers. Putting the tables in the appendix may not do the job very well.

The study concluded by stating that it has been proven that school facilities were the most potent determinant of academic achievement. Facilities in terms of qualifications of personnel, who are directly involved in the pedagogy; laboratory, library, school buildings, chairs/tables, administrative blocks, chalk-board, school maps and the likes are very crucial to high academic attainment. The study indicates that achievement is a function of availability of facilities to students in unity schools compared with public schools. The recommendations from this study should have been presented in a detailed manner and not in just few sentences because of the major finding in the study. The references utilized in this study were relevant and also contained some recent works germane to this research.