Teachers’ Perceived Influence of Educational Research on Improvement of Primary School Learning Environment in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria

The school environment plays key roles in influencing effective learning among students of all educational levels.To this effect, abundant educational innovations and ideas released through research findings are meant to promote positive and learners' friendly school environment.This paper investigated the influence of educational research on improvement of primary school learning environments in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria.This study employs descriptive survey design.Schools were randomly stratified into public and private groups for selection purpose.From the entire 193 schools (130 public and 63 private) selection of 6 public schools and 3 private others was done using simple random sampling method.Sample consists of 162 (94 Male,68 Female) teachers randomly selected from 6 public and 3 private primary school teachers in Moro Local Government Area respectively.Overall, 16 teachers selected from each school to make a total of 162 study participants in the study.A self-structured instrument titled "Teachers Perception of Educational Research Influence on Improvement of Primary School Learning Environment Questionnaire" (TPERIISL EQ) of Four Point Likert Scale Format, an adapted version of School Learning Environment Questionnaire (SLEQ) was used for data collection while inferential statistics of mean, standard deviation, t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics were used for data analysis.The study answered one (1) research question.Two (2) null hypotheses were tested, and results obtained determined at 0.05 level of significance.Result shows descriptive overview of noticeable improvement in renovated classrooms buildings and erection of new ones.Results also reveal significant differences in perceived improvement of school learning environment as influenced by educational research based on gender, school type and religion.Recommendations include among others the need to reduce congestion in the classroom in line with student-teacher ratio of 25 to 1.