School Environment and Students Attitudes Towards Learning in Selected Secondary Schools in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda

ABSTRACT This study was set to find out the relationship between schools’ environment and students’ attitude towards learning in selected secondary schools in Nyaruguru district. It was guided by four specific objectives, that included determining the i) profile of respondents in terms of age, gender, education level, teaching experience, subjects taught and type of school; ii) determining the level of schools’ environment; iii) the degree of students’ attitudes towards learning and iv) the relationship between schools’ environment and students’ attitudes towards learning. The researcher employed descriptive correlational strategies, questionnaires were used of 4-likert scale that is 4:- strongly agree, 3:-agree, 2:-disagree and 1:-strongly disagree. The finding revealed that level of school environment and student’s attitude of selected secondary schools in Nyaruguru District was poor. Pearson’s correlation co-efficient for school environment and students’ attitudes towards learning r 0.672 and positive, having a sig value = 0.000) which is less than 0.005. There was positive significant relationship between school environment and students’ attitudes towards learning. Therefore the researcher recommended that there is need to improve on the school environment in order to uplift the students’ attitudes towards learning in selected secondary schools in Nyaruguru district Rwanda. Arts subjects should still be encouraged in selected secondary schools in Nyaruguru district such that students can consider them as science subjects since there also very important, there is need to uplift the competencies of teachers in selected secondary schools in Nyaruguru district since most of the teachers were found to be degree holders so they need to upgrade and go for further studies.