An Investigation Into Cost And Students` Learning Outcomes In Selected Senior Secondary School Subjects In Lagos State

ABSTRACT         This study investigated cost and students’ learning outcomes in selected senior secondary school subject in Lagos state with a view to determine the contribution of the invested funds by the Lagos state government as well as different households in Lagos state senior secondary school education to students’ learning outcomes.        The students’ WASSCE results for five years (2005-2009) were taken as a measure of students’ learning outcome. A total of three hundred students from twelve senior secondary schools in the four most urban local governments in Lagos state were sele…