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Influence Of Family Background On Academic Performance Of Secondary School Students
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KWARA STATE, NIGERIA]
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Generally, sibling research suggests that relationships between sibling structure variables and children’s academics performance can be attributed to differences in family background, variation in family economics resources, and variations in the quality of parent-child interactions.
Programme international students Assessment (PISA 2000) stated that influence of academics and education success of students and school work which reinforce the activities and functioning of the teachers and students, the quality of parents and home background of students goes a long way to predict the quality and regularity of the satisfaction and provision academics needs. Poor parental care with gross deprivation of social and economics need of a child suffers parental and mental deprivation and care due to divorce or death or abscarding of one of the parents, the child’s schooling may be affected as the financially buoyant to pay school fee, purchase books and uniforms. Such student might play truancy and the performance in the school may be adversely affected.
Musgrave (2005) stated children from broken homes tend to have in contrast to the norms of the society. The incidence to broken home greatly tells on student’s academics performance. According to Ortese (2006) a child from homes where the father and mother are present will be well taken are of and sociable in the best way possible. Children from single- parent home are likely to suffer deprivation and denial of some right and opportunities. Also children whose parents cannot afford to provide them their needs often enter into delinquent activities. The economics distress may also compel students to result crime in order to make ends meet. It has been reviewed that the success of children may depend on the economic resources and equivalent service that parents provide and predicted that children period in a two-parent family (Biological or step family) may have the highest attainments. Single- parent families are likely to yield less income from work and have less time for the provision of honest hood service and educational materials.
It is apparent that family environment has been recognised on the student’s academics performance through the ages, the family value have long been regarded as fundamental source of morality and decent conduct of much that warrant measure against any behaviour that violated them. The family is the institutions where the existence of society is brought into focus.
Statement of the problem
Since secondary school students come from different families, they are sure to have different family background and experiences including academics and social life experiences. This makes it necessary for the researcher to investigate the different family background as influenced by multifarious socio-economic state such as educational level of parents, the types of employment, number of children in the family, types of family-monogamy or polygamy, how regular parents supervise their children’s with regards to emotional dispositions and temperamental traits, educational gadgets available in the family.
Family is a mechanism of socialization in all human cultures. Daramola (2006) status that the family plays the most significant role in the development of children. Success of children may depend on the economic resources and predicted that children who spend most of their childhood period in a two-parent family (biological) will have the highest attainment. Essien (2001) did a study on the effects of broken homes on a child academic performance. Azodo (2002) researched on comparative achievement of students from monogamous and polygamous families in Ilorin metropolis.
Alawode and Salami (2000) stated the influence of single parenting on the academic performance of adolescents in secondary schools while other researcher like Sokan and Akinode (2001) and Agbo (2002) found that children from single parent homes exhibited lower self-esteem lower academic performance than those from two parent homes. However, despite this finings, much of the findings only focus on the concern variables without actually investigating how he affects students studying within metropolitan areas. These researches in adequacies justify the need for the current study which found out the variability of secondary school students academic performances on the base of family background variables.
Research Questions
The following research questions are raised and answered in the study.
1. To what extent does family background influence academic performance of secondary school students?
2. Is there difference in the influence of family background on academic performance of students based on ender?
3. Is there difference in the influence of family background on academic performance of students based on religion?
4. Is there difference in the influence of family of students based on parent’s highest qualification?
5. Is there difference in the influence of family background on academic performance of students based on family size?
6. Is there difference in the influence of family background on academic performance of students based on parent’s employment type?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT Since secondary school students come from different families, it is basic that they have different family background and experiences including academic and social values. The success of students therefore depends significantly on the family structure which provides enabling environment or otherwise where learning could be encouraged. Thus, this study investigated influence of family background on academic performance of secondary school students in Ilorin South Local Government Ar ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 5 ]APPENDIX IUniversity of IlorinInstitute of Education Faculty of EducationInfluence of Family Background on Academics Performance of Students Questionnaire (IFAQ)Dear Student,You are requested to provide honest information as requested to provide honest information as requested in this questionnaire. All information provided shall be treated with strict confidence and used for the purpose of this study only. Section A: Personal DataInstruction: Kindly put a tick (√) to indicate the c ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Distribution of respondents by gender, religion, parents’ highest educational qualification, family size and parents’ employment type Table 2: Means and rank order of responses on influence of family background on academic performance of secondary school students Table 3: means, standard deviation and t-test analysis of the influence of family background on academic performance of secondary school students based on gender ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle page Certification Dedication Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of tables CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the study Statement to the problem Research questions Research Hypotheses Purpose of study Significance of the study Scope of the study Operational definition of terms CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Introduction Parental environment and academic performance of students Socio-econo ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Socio-economic status and academic performance of students Human beings are not equal in any society. Some are rich while other is poor. These condition affect or influence the educational attainment of individual citizens, Oyelade and Adebayo (2000), from the immemorial, societies have been divided between masters and servants, aristocrats and commoners. According to Berokon and Stationer (2002) people in the society are ranked into higher and lower society is ranked into higher and lower ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER THREEMETHODOLOGY Introduction This chapter presents information on the method to be used in eliciting information for the study. It further describes the research design, the sample and sampling procedure, the instrument to be used as well as its validity and reliability method of data collection and method of data analysis. Research Design The descriptive survey method was used for this study. Best (1981), noted that descriptive survey method enables the researcher to obta ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 8 ]Hypothesis FourThere is no significant difference in the influence of family background on the academic performance of secondary school students on the basis of family size.Table 6 showed the result of t- test of respondents on influence of secondary school students. The results shows that the critical t- value of -51 is less than critical t- value is greater than the calculated t- value , of 1.96, since the critical t-value, is greater than the calculated. Thus, there is no significant differ ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Borg and Gall (1999) suggested that it is better for a researcher to discuss his or her findings from research on the basis of each hypothesis. The t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical measures were used to test the five null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The results showed that four out of the five hypotheses tested were accepted. Hypothesis 1 stated that there is no significant difference in the influence of family background on academic performance of s ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAjiboye, S.K. (2002). Knowledge and attitude of religions leaders in Kwara State toward family planning. An unpublished B.ED degree research, University of Ilorin.Ajiboye, S.K. (2006) Prevention and Control of HIV/ AIDS as perceived by religions leaders in Ilorin metropolis. An Unpublished M.ED Research, University of Ilorin. Alawaye, A.S. (2006). Causes and patterns of examination malpractices among female secondary school students in Asa L.G.E.A, Kwara State. An Unpublished M.ED. Res ... Continue reading---
