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Influence Of Home Environment On Academic Achievement Among Secondary School Students
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Expectation and confidence in children’s abilities
The
home environment provide the foundation for learning and is an element
of the student life that can affect grades. Providing opportunities to
learn outside the school help facilitate student success in the school
environment, as reported by the university of Minnesota extension.
According to experts the mother’s educational level had the single most
important impact on a young child’s academic performance. The school
cannot single handedly provide the continuation of the home environment,
but the can play estimate role in laying foundation of the child in
learning how to read and write however, this influence is characterized
by various factors such as the parents educational attainment and
cultural issues. Over the years the society recorded a persisted
increase in the poor performance in the various school examination such
as the senior school exam (S.S.C.E) comments from educator have shown
that the blame for poor performance has been as a result of neglect and
care free attitude toward academic work by students and parents. It is
against this background that researcher has decided to investigate
academic performance on child. There are innumerable factors that affect
the child academic performance as stated above. It is obvious that a
child academic performance is directly related to his or her environment
as well as learning facilities and socio cultural issues. Every child
is born with certain level of intellectual ability and capability but a
good conducive environment with adequate learning facility will help
boost intellectual and academic capability of the child. Parent from
good learned environment will; always have good attitude toward
education any provide learning materials such as the television,
instructive videos, books and toys (creative toys) etc that facilitate
the learning process if they are provided.Educated parents will always
believe that it is important to help a child with his or her home work
and revise the school work that the child had done but this is the
opposite if a child is from a poor home environment to a large extent he
or she is deprived of the opportunities and he or she struggle with the
teaching and learning process.
Statement of Problem Good education
does not happen by chance. It is a product of effective teaching and
learning coupled with the effort of the teacher, the school, the
students, parents and their various home environments. Often at times
the blames on the poor performance of students in school are shifted to
the teachers and the school authorities. Most families in our society
seem not to give adequate attention to the education of their children.
It appears some of the parents have erroneous notion about the
performance of their children, they do not know and seem to fulfill
their role of guidance and encouragement in the child’s performance in
schools. Some people also have the notion that the mass failure or
success in schools could be traced back to the teachers and the school
authorities. While other people see socio-economic status of the family
as an influence to the child’s academic performance. However, some
research works have revealed that the performance of the students is a
joint effort of both the school authorities and that of the parents in
different home environment. This calls for further research to find out
the causes of the poor performance of the students and then proffer
solution to that. In Edo state for instance, some students and parents
have the notion that the factors responsible for the re-occurrence
massive failure of student in junior and senior West African School
Certificate Examinations (WASCE) is the factor emanating from the school
authorities and the teachers alone. Some students even go to special
Centre’s while few enlightened parents maintained that there are some
factors in student’s home environment which also contribute to that. It
is on this premise that this study was set out to identify some of the
home environmental factor affecting the students’ academic performances
and proffer solution to that.Research QuestionsAs regard to the purpose
of research the blowing research question provide the forms or the
study:
To what extent does parental involvement influence the
secondary school students academic performance?
2. To what extent does
parent’s occupation affect the secondary school students academic
performance?
3. Does the type of family structure and family situations
influence the secondary school students’ academic performance?
4. To what
extent does parental educational status influences secondary school
students academic performance?Purpose of The StudyThe purpose of this
study is to examine the home environment and its effect on academic
Performance among secondary school students of Egor local government.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The principal aim of this research is to ascertain the influence of the home environment on academic achievement among secondary school students. To determine this, four research questions where formulated which comprises the questionnaire that was used to solicit factual information from students in Egor local Government area in Edo State through proportionate stratified random sampling techniques. The sample used consisted of hundred students. The data was analyzed by the use of percentages, t ... Continue reading---
