Relationship Between the Availability of Teaching Materials and Students’ Academic Performance in Rwanda

Abstract

One of the preoccupations of Rwandan educational leaders is to provide schools with enough teaching materials in order to increase students’ academic performance. This report describes the influence of the availability of teaching material on students’ academic performance. The study used quantitative research and employed a correlation research design. The questionnaires were distributed to 339 students at a university in Rwanda selected through purposive sampling. Among the respondents, 179 were male while 160 were female. 189 were doing sciences while 150 were in arts. Results show that the students agreed to have a high perception of their academic performance. They also agreed to the fact that their school has many teaching materials that are available. The results show that there was a moderate positive relationship between availability of teaching material and students’ academic performance (r = .454**, n = 339, p < .01). The study concluded that schools should keep providing quality teaching materials to maintain good students’ academic performance.