The paper examined the relationship between resource availability and students’ academic performance in wood work in technical colleges in Delta State, Nigeria. The researcher employed correlational survey research design. Three research questions were raised for the study. With the dwindling provision of resources and the declining academic performance of students in the technical colleges, one wonders whether relationship exists between resource availability and students’ academic performance in the colleges. This constitutes the major concern of this present study especially technical college in Delta State.Checklist was adopted from National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) (2008) approved lists of equipment/tools in technical colleges and administered to the respondents. Achievement Test on Wood work was also administered to a sample of 20 students in technical colleges at two different occasions with an interval of two weeks. The scores received from the test were subjected to person’s product movement correlation coefficient. A reliability coefficient of 0.75 was obtained and this was high enough to achieve the objectives of the study. The instruments were collected back and with percentages. The results of the study showed that there were inadequate qualified teachers in various technical colleges, the workshop assistant staff were inadequate and the equipment/tools in workshops were grossly inadequate in technical colleges in Delta State, Nigeria. The relationship between resource availability and students’ academic performance in wood work in technical colleges was not encouraging and recommendations were proffered respectively.
Keywords: Resource Availability. Academic Performance, Students. Woodwork
