Assessing Learning Environment for Achieving Standard in Primary Education: Implication for Counselling for Human Capacity Development

Abstract

The paper is a descriptive survey which sought to identify how the provision of adequate learning environment would affect standard in primary education and subsequently empower both staff and students for capacity development through counselling. Fifteen (15) public primary schools out of 96 identified in Oru-East, Oru-West and Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State. Twenty (20) teachers and 24 pupils were drawn from each of the 15 schools giving a total sample of 300 and 360 respectively. Four research questions and a null hypothesis guided the study. The instrument used was questionnaire (ALEFAS). The data collected were analyzed using statistical mean and standard deviation for the research questions and t-test for the hypothesis. The result among others revealed inadequacy of learning environment for achieving the needed standard in primary school. The implication is that the provision of adequate learning environment is necessary for achieving standard and human capacity development which awareness will be created through counselling, sensitization, training, awareness campaigns at the state and federal levels.

Keywords: Learning environment, achieving standard, capacity development, counselling