REBUILDING HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA: EDEH'S RESPONSIVE APPROACH
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This paper examines learning difficulties on student’s academic performance in higher education institutions in Nigeria. Federal University of Technology Owerri, is Among Universities in Nigeria. However, Federal University of Technology Owerri was chosen as a university where the population and sample size of this study was selected. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Population of this study is 8,000 which comprised 4,500 males and 5,500 female students of Federal University of Technology. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 40 male students in Chemical and mechanical engineering department departments. On the other hand, 45 female students were selected in the project management and civil engineering departments, which gave sample size of 170 as sample size. Researcher developed questionnaire titled “ examination of learning difficulties on students’ academic performance in higher education institutions in Nigeria” was used, with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists in Business Education, Madonna University Nigeria, Okija Campus, Anambra State. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument was reliable to be used for this study. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Chi Square -test of independent was used to test the hypotheses. Findings from this study revealed varied effects of learning difficulties among students in Nigeria. The effects are: Difficulty in pronunciation of words, poor grades in quiz and examinations, aggression, reporting late to lectures, carefree attitudes to academics, staying isolated, laziness, and troublesome, moody, unemployment after graduation among others. It was recommended from this study that government and parents of students should provide learning equipment to students with learning difficulties. This would enable students suffering from learning difficulties to overcome their learning barriers and measure up with intelligent students in higher education institutions. Also, campaigns against the use of hard drugs should be emphasized. This would help to exonerate students from use of drugs and face their studies for the sake of the future.
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