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    The effect of laboratory exposure on students’ academic achievement in practically based subjects in secondary schools in Wakiso District.
    (Kampala International University. College of Education, Open and Distance Learning, 2017-09) Kyakuwa, Julius
    The study on the effect of laboratory exposure on students’ academic achievement in practically based subjects in secondary schools in Wakiso district. The research is guided by four objectives: First to examine the influence of exposure to laboratory facilities on students’ performance in adequately equipped laboratories and to those in inadequately equipped laboratories, Second to investigate students’ attitude change towards practically based subjects in adequately equipped laboratories and in to those inadequately equipped laboratories. Third to Examine the frequency of exposure to laboratory facilities on students on students in adequately equipped laboratories and those in inadequately equipped laboratories and their performance fourth to Investigate the efficiency of utilization of existing laboratory facilities by science teachers to enhance teaching of science subjects. The study was conducted in four secondary schools in Wakiso district. The study examined the availability of laboratories, examine the use of laboratories, and assess the availability of science teachers, and science teachers ‘perceptions how laboratories availability influence students’ performance in science subjects. The problem was that students’ performance in science subjects is appalling in secondary schools, Survey research design was used and the study employed quantitative approaches where observation, checklist, school records and likert scales were used for data collection. In that essence, a sample of 140 students from the classes of senior three and four students of sound mind were considered from the four schools randomly to provide the data which was used. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentages and ratio. Findings revealed that schools did not have laboratories; instead they had science rooms which lacked laboratory space. It was noted that apparatus and chemicals were either insufficient or absent in all sampled schools; instead schools improvised those equipment by using locally available materials in their environment. Experiments were done in large groups with little students. There was an acute shortage of science teachers. It was recommended that, policy makers need to ensure that students enrollment should match with the availability of laboratory facilities, more laboratories need to be built in schools and more science teachers be trained