O.E. Osagiobare

The study investigated the factors responsible for students’ academic performance in public secondary schools.The population for this study consists of all public secondary school students in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Out of the twenty-four public secondary schools in Oredo Local Government, eight secondary schools were selected for the study.This represents 33.3% of the total secondary schools in the local government. In each of the selected school, twenty students and five teachers were randomly selected to make a total number of two hundred (200) respondents. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. The instrument for the study was questionnaire, titled Assessment of factor responsible for students’ academic performance in public secondary schools’ questionnaire. (ASAPQ).Findings revealed that human resources, financial resource, physical resource and learning techniques influence students’ academic performance in public secondary schools. It was therefore recommended that subject teachers’ pre-service and in-service training must be encouraged and funded. Some innovative teaching methods and instructional strategies combined with new technologies to enhance effective and efficient teaching and learning