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Influence Of Drug Abuse On Students’ Academic Performance
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The study will commence by analyzing how to problem of drug abuse came into being. In this aspect, the study will then proceed to show the effect of drug abuse on student’s academic performance. Finally, the study intends to draw conclusion and make useful suggestion and recommendations in order to combat the menace of drug abuse.
Operational Definition of Terms
Abuse: is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices, crimes, or other types of aggression.
Drug: is any substance (other than food that provides nutritional support) that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin or dissolved under the tongue causes a physiological change in the body.
Addict: It is the person that engaged in the misuse of drug and cannot do without taking drug; hence it has become part and core of him or her.
Drug abuse: It’s the process of taking drug in greater quantity without following medical prescription
Students: They are referred to group of people who are learners in academic fields.
Academic Performance: Then combine it together and general comment what is academic is used to describe thing that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills. What is academic performance by (Ellie Williams, 2013) when people hear the team “academic performance†they often think of a persons’s GPA. However, several factors indicate a student’s academic success while some may not graduated top of their class, they may hold leadership positions in several student groups or score high on standardized test such as the statistic the SAT or Act Account.
Performance: An activity (such as saying a sons or acting in a play) that a person or group does to entertain an audience. It is also the way actor performs a part in a play, performance criteria below are used to assess student has prepared for and performed in class and how well the student mastered the material presented, academic performance then combine it together and general comment.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the influence of drug abuse on the academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin, Kwara state, Nigeria. The instrument used for the study was a questionnaire tagged “Influence of Drug abuse on students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire (IDASAPQ). It consisted of 20 items which elicited necessary information from 200 students in Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin. Frequency counts and percent ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]UNIVERSITY OF ILORINFACULTY OF EDUCATIONDEPARTMENT OF COUSELLOR EDUCATIONINFLUENCE OF DRUG ABUSE ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE QUESTIONNAIRE (IDASAPQ) Dear Respondent,This questionnaire is designed to obtain data on the influence of drug addiction on students’ academic performance as perceived by Kwara State. You are therefore requested to provide very sincere responses to each of the items. Kindly note that your responses will be treated with utmost confidentially as the ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLESTable 1: Classification of Hard Drugs Table 2: Distribution of Respondents by Gender, Age, Religion, ATP, ATF and Tor Table 3: Means of Influence of Drug Addiction Rank – ordered Table 4: Results of t-test comparing Male and Female Respondents’ perception Table 5: Results of t-test Comparing Christian and Islamic Religion of Respondents perception Table 6: ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle page Approval page Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content List of Tables Abstract CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYIntroduction State of problem Purpose of the study Significance of the study Research Questions Research Hypotheses Scope and Limitation the Study Operational Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURENature and Normal use of Drug Classification of Hard Drugs • ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 7 ]Summary of Literature Review The influence of Drug Abuse on student Academic performance has been touched in this view. From the work of various authors, researchers and educationalist/related Literature are viewed under various element of drug abuse background such as, Nature and Normal drug classification of hard drug, meaning of drug abuse, causes, reasons behind drug abuse, Influence of drug abuse on academic performance, effect of drug abuse, and counseling for drug abuse as they in ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Reliability: Reliability of the instrument according to (Neil R. Carlson
2009) refer Reliability in statistics and psychometrics as the overall
consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability
if it produces similar results under consistent conditions. "It is the
characteristic of a set of test scores that relates to the amount of
random error from the measurement process that might be embedded in the
scores. A test – retest method was employed to ascerta ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Table 2 shows the Means and Rank orders of influence of drug abuse on students’ academic performance. From the table, Item 1 (“Drug abuse can lead to poor concentration in the classâ€) ranked first (1st) with a mean score of 3.285. Item 13 (“Drug abuse can lead to frequent fatigueâ€) ranked 2nd with a mean score of 3.100, while item 15th (“Drug abuse can lead to poor spelling habitâ€) and Item 20 (“Drug abuse can lead to not being able to understand ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Conclusion This study has undertaken to find for the influence of drug abuse on academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin. Based on the finding from this study and its subsequent discussion, the following constitute the study and its subsequent discussion, the following constitute the study’s conclusion.Table 2 showed the Mean and Rank orders of influence of drug abuse on students’ academic performance. From the table, Item 1 (“Drug abuse can lead t ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAbel. F.I (1974), The use of Indian hemp & drugs, among secondary school students in Lagos, Nigerian University press.Alfred, B. Williams, G. and payne, W.J.A (1969) “medical chemistry†new York London, page 3-47 published, designed and printed by tap printing works, new York.Ajila C.O; Causes of Drug Abuse among school adolescents in Ondo State. Nig. Rev. Afr. Affairs, 6: 45-55, 1992.Adelekan, M.L Abiodun, O.A, Imoukhom Obayan, A.O, Oni G.A., Ogunremi, O.O Psychosocial Cor ... Continue reading---
