Title: Resource Utilization as Correlates of Students Academic Achievement in Genetics in Adeyemi College of Education Ondo Ondo State Nigeria
Author(s): Samuel O. Ogunniyi, Johnson A. Akerele, Aminat Omolola Asabi
Publication Year: 2020; Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 45-56

This paper examined resource utilization as correlates of students academic achievement in Genetics in Adeyemi College of Education Ondo. Genetics is an aspect of Biology concerned with the study of nature and mechanism of heredity. Genetics studies how characteristics of an individual are transferred from his or her parents. It is an important course been studied in secondary and tertiary levels of education. It was observed that some students performed very low in Genetics. As a result of this some students were not able to graduate in the Department of Biology in Adeyemi College of Education Ondo Ondo State Nigeria. This may be as a result of non-provision or utilization of library information resources and laboratory. Descriptive research design of correlational type was used in this study. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 300 out of the 400 undergraduates in 300 level in the college. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Questionnaire and Students achievement test in Genetics were the instruments used in this study. Descriptive statistics was used to answer research questions while Pearsons Product Moment Correlation was used to test the hypotheses. The study found that textbooks on Genetics was the only highly utilized library information resources the rate of students utilization of laboratory in learning Genetics was high Students academic achievement in Genetics was average there was no significant relationship between library information resources utilization and students academic achievement in Genetics and there was significant relationship between laboratory resources utilization and students academic achievement in Genetics. The paper concluded that there was no correlation between library information resources utilization and students academic achievement in Genetics which may be due to low use of library information resources. It was recommended among others that there should be current awareness services on resources and services available in the library most especially to students which may improve their awareness on the latest resources available in the library in order to make use of them and College Management should provide unavailable laboratory equipment for students use