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Item School quality and teacher characteristics as correlates of students’ learning outcomes in history in Rivers State(The Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, 2017-01) Junaid, I. O.; Owhonda, N. G.Students 'performances in senior secondary school history in recent time have not been impressive based on the reports from public examiners. The subject is not offered by many students and is almost going into extinct as important as it is to individual citizen and the country as a whole. The extent to which school quality and teachers' characteristics correlate with students learning outcome in history in Rivers State was investigated. The study is a descriptive design of survey type. Multistage sampling technique was employed and data were collected from 30 history teachers and 200 SSS II history students from 20 SSS schools in Rivers State. Five research questions and four validated instruments guided the study with reliability coefficients of 0.78 for SQQ;0.67for TCCRS; 0.72 for CIS and 0.56for HAT respectively. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results indicated a significant relationship between school quality and students' learning outcome in history (r —. 494); revealed a significant relationship between teacher characteristics and students' learning outcome in history (r = .415); both variables jointly explain 25% of the variance observed in students' learning outcome in history and it was statistically significant at F (df =2, 228) = 5.712, p < 0.05. It was observed that there were positive relationships among school quality, teacher characteristics and students' learning outcome in history. Government should provide trainings for teachers through seminars/workshops in order to develop their knowledge, practices and attitude that are neededfor maximum students'learning outcome in history.Item Learning materials availability and students’ attitude as correlates of students’ performance in senior secondary school history examination in Osun State, Nigeria(Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Akoka-Lagos, 2015) Junaid, I. O.The continual low performances of students in History over the years have been of grave concern to all stakeholders in education sector. This study therefore investigated availability of learning materials and attitude of students as correlates of students’ performance in senior secondary school History in Osun State. The study is a descriptive research of survey type. Multi-stage sampling technique was used and data were collected from 240 students and 30 teachers from twelve senior secondary schools in six Local Government Areas of the Osun State. Four research questions and three instruments guided the study with reliability coefficient of 0.76 for LMA; 0.67 for HAS and 0.65 for HAT respectively. Data were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression. Results revealed that there was positive low relationship between availability of learning materials and students' performance (r=0.33); there existed positive low correlation between students’ attitude and their performance in History (r= 0.26); both variables jointly account for 17.7% of observed variance in students’ performance in History and that availability of learning materials was more potent (B =0.37) than students' altitude (B= 0.19) in determining students' performance in History. Government should ensure constant supply of learning materials into various schools that will motivate students to have positive attitude towards history which will improve the level of students' performance in History.