...Factors Influencing Students Academic Performance in Nigeria Socio-Economic Factors Influencing Students Academic Performance in Nigeria Some Explanation from a Local Survey Nigeria like any other developing nations has witnessed series of political instability, with obvious effects on educational policies at federal, state and local government levels. This gradually laid the foundation of fallen standard in education at the primary and secondary school levels, which caused differential academic performance of students. In the quest of finding survival feet, the nation has evolved series of socio-economic and educational measures but these have not improved the social-economic status of families in the country. It is within this milieu that this study examines socio-economic factors influencing students' academic performance in Nigeria, with some explanations from Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State. The time frame of the study covers the period of 2004 to 2007. A total of one hundred and twenty (120) copies of questionnaire were administered to respondents. The study revealed that insufficient parental income, family type and lack of funding by governments are factors influencing students' academic performance. Based on these findings, certain recommendations are made towards improving student academic performance. Prominent of these include proper funding of education by government, sensitization of parents towards their children education and the support of NGOs to eradicate...
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...A CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL - RELATED FACTORS AFFECTING NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE By Dr. Olaniyi Bojuwoye ABSTRACT A ten-item questionnaire containing various descriptions of school-related characteristic which have been found to adversely affect pupils academic performance was administered on 809 teachers and 1012 students of secondary schools from ten randomly selected states in Nigeria. The respondents ranked the characteristics in terms of their degree of effect on pupil academic performance. The result showed that lack of resource materials for teaching, instructional strategies, teacher shortages and teachers’ attitude to work were rated more highly than other characteristics. The result further showed that while the teachers considered lack of resource materials for teaching as having the greatest degree of effect on pupils academic performance, the students on the other hand considered poor instructional strategies as having the greatest degree of effect on pupil academic performance. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND LITERATURE On attaining Independence status as a nation in 1960 what seemed a major concern to most Nigerian leaders then was how education would be accessible to all citizens of the newly created nation. Education was seen as the necessary instrument immediately and essentially for the consolidation of the independence, for securing the new nation against neocolonianism and for making workable the newly established self government in a...
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...PROPOSAL TOPIC: STUDENT ACCOMODATION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN BABCOCK UNIVERSITY (2011 – 2014) INTRODUCTION This study aims to investigate the relationship between student accommodation and their academic performance with the goal of determining the factors relating to their accommodation that affect their performance academically. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To obtain the general perceptions of students on the effect the accommodation have on their academic performance. 2. To identify the factors that affects their study environments in relations to their academic performance. 3. To proffer some possible solutions to the problems affecting the academic performance of the students due to their study environments. RESEARCH QUESTIONS i. What are the general perceptions of students on the effect of the accommodation have on their academic performance? ii. What are the factors that affect their study environments in relations to their academic performance? iii. What are the possible solutions to the problems affecting the academic performance of the students due to their study environments. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY The findings of this study will help everyone; especially the students in assessing the environments where they live and study, and in addition it has provided information on student assessment of the availability of facilities in helping students in their studies and the quality of live on campus. It was also hoped that the information collected...
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...7714 www.ijhssi.org Volume 2 Issue 11 ǁ November. 2013ǁ PP.72-76 Poor Study Habit as an Educational Problem Among University Undergraduates In The Contemporary Times And Effective Management Strategies DR.O.O.PITAN . 1, School Of Education . National Open University Of Nigeria. Lagos, Nigeria ABSTRACT :Educational problems are multifaceted and are hindering factors that inhibit the maximal realization of learners’ endowment. These problems could be leaner–resident, school–resident, home-resident or societal–resident. One of the consequences of these problems is academic underachievement and academic failure caused by poor or improper study habit. On the part of the affected students, ethological suggestions to motivate them for achievement and psycho-stimulants to develop their reading skills can be of use in reducing the effect of this educational problem, poor study habit. Studies have established the prevalence of poor study habit among the University undergraduates, which has led to poor performance in home assignments as well as in examinations. Hence, this study focuses on the factors that are capable of precipitating poor study habit which aggravate into educational problems and how they can be effectively managed to increase the level of academic achievement in the average undergraduate .The reduction effect will go a long way to build a nation where mediocrity will soon become a thing of the past. Integrity, as a value, will be further established...
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...STUDY HABITS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE. STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OGUTA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE. TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page i Approval page ii Dedication iii Acknowledgements iv Table of contents v Abstract viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem 2 1.3 Scope of the Study 3 1.4 Purpose of the Study 3 1.5 Significance of the Study 4 1.6 Research questions 4 CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 The concept of Study Habits 6 2.2 Defective study Habits 8 2.3 Factors Affecting Academic Performance 10 2.4 Study Habits in relation to Academic performance 13 2.5 Need for Orientation of Students on study Habits 18 2.6 Criteria for Good Study Habits 22 CHAPTER THREE 3.1 Design of the Study 28 3.2 Area of the Study 29 3.3 Population of the Study 29 3.4 Sample and Sampling Techniques 29 3.5 Instrumentation 30 3.6 Validation of Instruments 31 3.7 Reliability of the Instrument 31 3.8 Method of data Collection 31 3.9 Method of data Analysis 32 CHAPTER FOUR 4.1 Data Analysis and Presentation 33 Chapter Five 5.0 Discussion and Interpretation of Result 38 5.1 Discussion of Result 38 5.2 Education Implication of the Findings 42 5.3 Recommendation 43...
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...contemporary society than Biology has”. Man, probably was a biologist before he was anything else, his own health body in health and illness, the phenomena of birth, growth, and death of the plants and other animals that give him food, shelter and clothing undoubtedly were matters of serious concern to man then and even now. Biology is intimately connected to daily life and everybody’s life-long planning. Shut out Biology from daily life and civilization comes to a standstill. It is in the light of this, that the research seeks to build and elicit among students and teachers the proper appreciation and interest in the value of Biology to the individual and to the society at large. This subject Biology, occupies a very important position in senior secondary school level curriculum. Introducing Biology at that level meaning laying a strong foundation in Biology and help equip people in future in Biology related careers. Students enrolment in Biology are more than in Chemistry and Physics. It is for this reason that Biology should be well taught in senior secondary school. Biology has the highest number of candidates...
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...THE EFFECT OF STUDY HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FRESHMEN EDUCATION STUDENTS IN XAVIER UNIVERSITY, CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, SCHOOL YEAR 2008-2009” Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM A. Introduction The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicate lesser learning. However, many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that would account for the grades. No single factor can be definitely pointed out as predicting grades. It has been an interplay of so many factors – gender, IQ, study habits, age, year level, parent’s educational attainment, social status, number of siblings, birth order, etc. In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are a variable of academic performance. However, at this point in time, the researchers would like to investigate the possible relationship of study habits and the factors affecting it to the academic achievement of under graduate education students of Xavier University- Ateneo de Cagayan. The investigation of on this area thus becomes a real and compelling motivation for the researchers to conduct this study. B. Conceptual Framework Independent variables as it influence the dependent variable...
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...ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HOSPITALITY STUDENTS OF CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY- SILANG CAMPUS Mark Anthony S. Gato Janna Gold D. Lagura An undergraduate research proposal submitted to the Faculty of Cavite State University- Silang Campus in Partial fulfilment of the requirements for graduation for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management. To be prepared under the supervision of Mr. Rizalito B. Javier. INTRODUCTION Hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, restaurant, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry (Bieber et al, 2011) The fact that some students with apparently high scholastics aptitude do very poorly in tertiary school while others with only mediocre ability do very well has presented a challenge to many educators. It has been observed that hard working students with high IQs sometimes do not perform as well as their classmates with lower IQs (Harvey, 2003) Academic performance is generally refers to how will a student can accomplishing his or her task or studies, but there quite a number of factors that determine the level and quality of students’ academic performance (Bell, 2008). According to Swagman (2011), she stated that the U.S education system stacks up against other countries on the PISA international...
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...study should have at least three hours out of class for every hour spent in class. They also said that a student must have a special place to study with plenty of room to work. And students should not be cramped. They presupposes that study time will go better if a learner take a few minutes at the start to straighten things up. A desk and straight-backed chair is usually best. “ Don't get too comfortable--a bed is a place to sleep, not to study” as what they said. A student must have everything close at hand(book, pencils, paper, coffee, dictionary, computer, calculator, tape recorder ,etc.) before starting to study. Students are not suggested to spend on time jumping up and down to get things. The PBCC suggests also that distracting noise should be minimized however they said that there are some people need sound and some like silence. In this case, a learner must finds what works for him or her. Culprits are family and friends. consider a "do not disturb" sign and turning on your answering machine is the way also to have better study habits according to the PBBC.. Frank Pogue(2000) did a research project to determine why students fail. What he founds to be true in that study habits survey was that more than 30 years ago still rings true today--students fail because they do not know how to study .The best advice he can give is to develop sound study skills. He said that a student should make sure that he/she has a good study environment, a good desk, a sturdy chair, good light,...
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...effect of students socio-economic/family background on students academic performance in tertiary institutions using decision tree algorithms A. B. Adeyemo (Ph.D)1 and S. O. Kuyoro (M.Sc.)2 Department of Computer Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Abstract The causes of the difference in the academic performance of students in tertiary institutions has for a long time been the focus of study among higher education managers, parents, government and researchers. The cause of this differential can be due to intellective, non-intellective factors or both. From studies investigating student performance and related problems it has been determined that academic success is dependent on many factors such as; grades and achievements, personality and expectations, and academic environments. This work uses data mining techniques to investigate the effect of socio-economic or family background on the performance of students using the data from one of the Nigerian tertiary institutions as case study. The analysis was carried out using Decision Tree algorithms. The data comprised of two hundred forty (240) records of students. The academic performance of students was measured by the students’ first year cumulative grade point average (CGPA). Various Decision Tree algorithms were investigated and the algorithm which best models the data was used to generate rule sets which can be used to analyze the effect of the socio-economic background of students on their academic performance. The rules...
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...in schools, particularly science and technology as well as in our daily life activities especially in the modern world. One of the needs of the Nigerian society which must be given priority today is the advancement of science and technology which is not possible without mathematics. Mathematics is a very important subject which is made compulsory from primary to post primary schools level of education. Since mathematics is an important subject our life, what does mathematics mean? The Academic American encyclopedia defined mathematics as the study of numbers, set of points, and various abstract elements, together with the relations between them and operations performed on them. Wikipedia defined mathematics as the abstract study of topics such as quantity (number) structure, space and change. Mathematic is a science subject that deals with the study of numbers, shapes, sizes and other relationships among the quantities. 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: mathematics is one of the most important and compulsory subjects to be taught in primary schools and even in post primary schools. The subject is very important since it involves almost all aspects of life. It is involved in all aspects of life because, since the beginning of life there is mathematics. This research is carried out to identify the factors affecting the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary school in Toro local government area.. For clarity,...
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...identification and description of the history and well def and nature of a well-defined research problem with reference to the existing literature. He added that background information in your introduction should indicate the root of the problem being studied, its scope and the extent to which previous studies have successfullyinvestigated the problem, where the gaps exist that your study attempts to address. Introductory background information differs from a literature review because it places the research problem in proper context rather than thoroughly examining pertinent literature. In recent years, the use of social networking sites has grown tremendously especially among the teens and high school students. However, very little is known about the scale of use, the purpose, how students use these sites and, more specifically, whether these sites help or harm their academic progress, (Miah, Omar and Golding, 2012) Kumar (2005) asserts that research objectives refer to what researcher studies for. The research objectives are categorized into two categories that are the main or general objective and sub objectives or specific objectives. Kumar says main objectives are what the research has thrust to conduct research while sub objectives identify the specific issues researcher proposes to examine. The objective should be clear stated the main aim of the researcher to conduct research as well as...
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...Commonwealth Christian Academy Foundation Inc. Research Title “EFFECTS OF STUDY HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS” A research proposal Presented to: Ms. Eliza Enriquez Researchers: Jay Mar M. Basco Kenton Van Fortu Adrian Cablao Chapter I A. Introduction Changes in behavior naturally occur in high school students. Nowadays, students spend their vacant time for doing their habits instead of advancing their studies. Some of this habits make them forgot to do their school responsibilities because of enjoyment that it caused to them. Playing computer games, watching their favorite television shows and hanging out with their friends are the common habits of high school students. Good study habits are the key to learning. Everyone cannot be brilliant but everyone can learn how to study. Effective study habits, even highly intelligent student failed due to inefficient work and lack of knowledge on how to study effectively. Important skills for study have to be learned and practiced. Moreover, students who put in more classrooms how and who work to a more regular program of study have a better academic performance. Study habits tend to be formed in the early grades and in the most instances, do not materially improve after elementary school. Some students often complain about mental inability or strain or lack of interest in studies. Other thinks they are not capable. Purpose of the study The purpose...
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...EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN HISTORY IN NIGERIA BY Dr. (Mrs.). A. A. Jekayinfa ABSTRACT This study was carried out to find out the effects of instructional resources on the academic achievement of secondary school students in History. For the purpose of the study, data were collected from five hundred and five (505) form IV history students, eleven (11) History teachers and seven (7) principals in eleven (11) selected secondary schools in Ogbomoso North and Central Local Government areas of Oyo State. Teachers and students in the sampled schools were administered, an investigator – constructed questionnaire. History Achievement Test was also administered on the students in the selected schools. Results of the study indicated that adequate supply of instructional resources have significant effects on students’ performance in history. Furthermore, the results revealed that schools with adequate teacher quality and material resources in History showed superiority in achievements on the history test than schools without adequate teacher quality and material resources. INTRODUCTION Education, according to Coombs (1970) consists of two components. He classified these two components into inputs and outputs. According to him, inputs consist of human and material resources and outputs are the goals and outcomes of the educational process. Both...
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...justice and equality; s responsiveness to the needs of the society; and s co-operative governance. An elaboration on each of these provisions is found below. Justice and equality The new framework is designed to meet the educational needs of South Africa through significantly changed national economic, social and political structures.2 It seeks to guide fundamental changes in higher education to correct, redress and overcome the legacies of apartheid, so that higher education becomes more socially equitable and promotes social justice more generally. The government makes a commitment to ‘equity, justice, and a better life for all’.3 The White Paper stipulates greater efficiency in terms of student throughput and output rates and in terms of the success rates of black students. Social responsiveness The national framework seeks responsiveness to address societal interests and needs by producing graduates who are equipped to participate in a globally competitive economy, enabling them to contribute to the reconstruction and development needs of society. Specifically, the White Paper calls for shifting enrolments towards science/technology and career-oriented fields and programmes, and urges the growth of basic and applied research within the framework of a national research plan. Co-operative governance The...
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