The Effect of Attitude on Student's Academic Performance in Cataloguing and Classification Course in Nigerian Polytechnics

Abstract

The study investigates the effect of attitude on student's performance in cataloguing and classification courses in polytechnic based library schools in Nigeria. This is against the background of the phobia the students have on cataloguing and classification. Descriptive survey method was adopted while a questionnaire, student's attitudinal test and cataloguing and classification test were used for data collection. Total enumeration technique was used to select all the 1019 HND students from four purposively selected Nigerian polytechnics. Data were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation at 0.05 level of significance. The result on student's attitude towards cataloguing and classification course (r=0.73) and cataloguing and classification achievement test (r=0.74) the federal Polytechnic Offa has most favourable attitude (x = 39.914) to cataloguing and classification course in the library school followed by Federal Polytechnic Oko (x=35.887) Federal Polytechnic Kaduna (x = 32.244) and Federal Polytechnic Nekede (x = 29.22). The study reveals that student's attitude has a significant correlation with performance in cataloguing and classification courses. The study recommended that student's positive attitude influenced academic performance of Higher National Diploma students in cataloguing and classification courses in Nigerian polytechnics.