Facilities/Equipment As Panacea To Physical Education Instructional Programmes To Secondary Schools Education In Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

Abstract

This study examine the facilities/equipment as a panacea to physical education instructional programe in secondary schools in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The study examined how facilities/equipment would be a panacea to physical education instructional programme in secondary school in Benin City, Edo State. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and the main research instrument used was a modified closed- ended Likert type questionnaire which was validated. The reliability of the instrument was employed using  crombach alpha to determine the internal  consistency  of the questionnaire  and 0.78% was obtained. The Data was analyzed using a combination of frequency count and simple percentages methods  to describe and analyzed the data collected. The finding was that, public and approve  private secondary schools in Benin City do not possess the requisite facilities/ equipment, therefore the hypothesis which says that public and private secondary schools in Benin City do not possess the requisite facilities/equipment  was accepted. Based on the finding it was recommended among others that, communities, parents teacher Association and lover of sports can help to provide physical education facilities and equipment for effective teaching of physical education in both theoretical and  practical. Also provision of sports equipment should be enhanced through planned annual target, while also private  interested individual should be solicited and encouraged by the government.