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Causes And Effects Of Dropout Among Undergraduates In Nigeria
[A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE]
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Study by Frendenberg
and Ruglls (2007) identified twenty four factors under family cluster;
three factors under community cluster and twelve factors under school
cluster. The factors identified under family cluster include; low family
socioeconomic status, racial or ethnic groups, male, special education
status, low family support for education, low parental education,
residential mobility, low social conformity, low acceptance of adult
authority, high level of social isolation, disruptive behaviour conduct,
being held back in school, poor academic achievement, academic problems
in early grades, not liking school, feelings of “not fitting in†and of
not belonging, perceptions of unfair or harsh disciplines, feeling
unsafe in school, not engaged in school, being suspended or expelled,
conflicts between work and school, having to work and school, having to
work or support family, substance use and pregnancy. In community
cluster, the following factors were indentified: living in a low income
neighborhood, having peers with low educational aspirations and having
friends or siblings who are dropouts. Under school related cluster,
these factors were identified; low socioeconomic status of school
population, high level of racial or ethnic segregation of students, high
proportion of students of colour in school, high proportion of students
enrolled in special education, location in central city, large school
district, school safety and disciplinary policies, high-stakes testing,
high student –to- teacher ratio, academic tracking, discrepancy between
the racial or ethnic composition of students and faculty, and lack of
programmes and support for transition into next level. While job related
cluster entails: those students who could not work and school at the
same time, those who had to do a job to survive and those who found job.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This
study was carried out to correct the imbalance in research efforts on
our knowledge of school dropout. Most of the researches on dropout have
been centered on causes, effects and remedies. Most if not all the
researches in Nigeria on the same subject matter followed the same
pattern with case studies on primary and secondary school. No studies to
my knowledge in Nigeria studied dropout problems using the tertiary
institutions. This study is therefore very timely and significant.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
To determine whether prevalence of dropout among undergraduates in Lagos State.
To examine the causes of drop out among undergraduates in Lagos State.
To examine the effects of drop out among undergraduates in Lagos State.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to examine the causes and effects of dropout among undergraduates in Nigeria using Lagos State. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of students of Lagos State University. In determining the sample size, the researcher conveniently selected 229 respondents, 215 were received and 210 were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The c ... Continue reading---
