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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Guidance and counseling are two closely interrelated concepts. According to Makinde (1984) and Patterson (1977) guidance refer to a broad area of all educational activities and services aimed at assisting individuals students to understand themselves and adjust to school life. Mutie and Ndambuki (1999) defined it as a learning – oriented process which occurs in an interactive relationship with the aim of ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Students’ academic gain and learning performance is affected by numerous factors including gender, age, self-concept peer group, level of ability, method of teaching, teachers’ personal characteristics, interest in the subject, classroom, environment, psychological environment, residential area of students’ social and economic background, and many others. Many researchers conducted detailed studies about the factors contributing to students performance at different study levels Graet ...

ABSTRACT This study explored the influence of individual differences influences students’ performance in schools by examining the influence of socio-economic status, environment, heredity and gender differences on the academic performance of secondary school students in Abeokuta. A sample of two hundred and forty students both male and female at Junior Secondary School level in Ilorin that participated in the study, was drawn across 12 selected secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The influence of instructional materials in promoting students’ academic performance and teaching and learning in educational development is indisputable. The teaching of Agricultural Science in Nigerian secondary schools needs to be properly handled. Agriculture contributes to the nation’s economic development, hence, the need to be taught thoroughly if it is to meet the educational and economic development. Moreso, that Agricultural Science is ...

ABSTRACT This study was carried out in order to determine the influence of family factors on the academic achievement of secondary school students in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. A population of 10 secondary schools were selected and utilized for the study with two hundred (200) students randomly selected. The respondents were made to respond to items on a questionnaire and an achievement test. This was made ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1            BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY This study is on the influence of western culture on the Nigerian youths using Takum Local Government as a case study. The term culture has been defined differently by many people. The different definitions attached to culture are based on the differences in the orientation of the people. According to Ekeh (2012), culture is construct used in an attempt to analyzed and integrate ...

ABSTRACT This study was carried out in order to determine the influence of family factors on the academic achievement of secondary school students in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. A population of 10 secondary schools were selected and utilized for the study with two hundred (200) students randomly selected. The respondents were made to respond to items on a questionnaire and an achievement test. This was made ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1     Background of the Study The school environment, which include the classrooms, libraries, technical workshops, laboratories, teachers’ quality, school management, teaching methods, peers, etc are variables that affect students’ academic achievement (Ajayi, 2001 and Oluchukwu, 2000).  Hence, the school environment remains an important area that should be studied and well managed to enhance students’ academic performance. The issue of poor academic performance of students in Nigeria has ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Continuous assessment is one of the new concepts introduced in the Nigeria educational system with the new national policy on education in short it is an interval part of the new system of education otherwise known as the 9-3-3-4 system. Assessment is an essential element in the educational process. A teacher must make some measurements of the extent to which the learning ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1                  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Guidance and counseling as a discipline in education concerns itself with assisting students world-wide to function effectively by enabling them get over the difficulties which might prevent them achieve self-actualization in their academic pursuit. This stresses the fact that modern African children and youths need guidance and counseling. But to be effective, guidance practices must be based on philosophies that reflect African thinking ...

ABSTRACT This research work was set out to examine the family background and its influence on the child academic performance. If the child family background has any effect on his performance at school, some selected primary schools in Oredo local government area of Edo State as a  case study in the process of carrying out this research work, certain thought in the vain of questions came to mind which are: ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1      Background of the study Digital natives, the net-generation, the digital-generation, and millenniums are all labels to identify today’s learners. Marc Prensky (2001) created the term digital native in his work Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants to describe the generation of learners growing up interacting with digital technology. Marc Prensky (2001), educational author, noted that the average college student has spent less than 5,000 hours of his/her life reading, ...

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ABSTRACT This research work was designed to investigate the importance of continuous assessment in some selected secondary school and also teacher’s competency in implementing continuous assessment in Egor. To achieve the laid down objectives, the researcher carried out the investigation by designing well structured questionnaire, for 50 respondents in the area of study. The data so far generated from the study was analyzed using the simple percentage statistical analysis. The ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION  1.1              Background to the study Schools are established to equip the youths with essential skills needed for functionality as useful and knowledgeable citizens of the country. However, examination of school records shows that students’ academic performances have remained for long very unimpressive. Obviously, this is not healthy for the growth of the country. In a study, Polom (2011) analyzed West African Examination Council (WAEC), examination in Mathematics and English ...

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to find out the factor that influences the growth of cultism in school. In carrying out this study, a questionnaire was designed and administered to the student in College of Education, Ekiadolor – Benin. The data collected were analyzed and interpreted. It was observed that power, security, wealth, parents, peer groups and amongst others are he major factors that influence the growth of ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY Every child is unique and so he must react to the school environment in his own way. Since a child behaviour is the product of heredity and environment (a child family background, his upbringing, his peer group and al forces of his own environment) must play a major role in his school performance. The family unit is the first and primary foundation of ...

ABSTRACT This study is designed to examiner and determine the effect of the activities of peer groups on the academic performance of students in some selected secondary schools in Esan North East Local Government Area, Edo State. The research questions used were: i.             How anti-academic activities could hinder academic performance among peer groups in secondary school. ii.            How inadequate school materials could encourage children to be indolent at work. iii.           How bad school ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Nigeria is presently witnessing a rapid economic, industrial and political growth and as such, the Nigerian students are faced with the problem of choice of career or vocation out of the numerous existing ones which are possibly known to the students. Besides, Nigeria as a developing country where appropriate human resources are at a premium, the influencing of students occupational interest and their ...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The socio-emotional context of children’s lives influences their ability to learn. Education is a major factor in the development and growth of society and its nature and goals depends on the society its nature itself. Educations in particular have been critically trying to provide solutions to the problem posed by socio-emotional behaviour of students in schools and society at large. These limitation observed ...