Consequences Of Child Abuse On Students Academic Performance As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS]

Item 4 is ranked third (3rd) with a mean score of 3.34 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “poor performance in examination”. Item 17 is ranked fourth (4th) with a mean score of 3.32 and the item states that “the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance is development of truancy attitude”. Item 5 is ranked fifth (5th) with a mean score of 3.24 and the items states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “lack of motivation in academic achievement.
Items 3, 7, 11 and 16 are ranked sixth (6th) with mean score of 3.2 respectively and the item respectively states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “inactive attitude towards academic activities, inability to develop a good academic processing skills, emotional distress and instability and inability to develop sense of personal worth. Since we have four items ranking 6th it means there will be no rank 7th, 8th, and 9th.
Item 13 is ranked tenth (10th) with a mean score of 3.18 and the item state that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “repeated failure due to constant absenteeism”. Item 6 is ranked eleventh (11th) with a mean score of 3.16 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “manifestation of delinquent behaviours.”
Item 12 is ranked twelveth (12th) with a mean score of 3.1 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “psychological imbalance”. Item 14 and 20 are ranked 13th with mean score of 3.06 and the items respectively states that the consequence of child abuse on students’ academic performance leads to “deviant behaviours and constant development of maladaptive behaviour. Since we have two items ranking 13th there will be no rank 14th.
Item 10 is ranked (15th) fifteenth with a mean score of 3.02 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on students’ academic performance leads to “carelessness in handling academic instructions”.
Item 15 is ranked sixteenth (16th) with a mean score of 2.9 and the item states that the consequences of child abuse on student’s academic performance lead to “lack of manipulative skills”.
Item 18 is ranked seventeenth (17th) with a mean score of 2.88 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “lack of interpersonal relationship”.  Item 19 is ranked eighteenth (18th) with a mean score of 2.76 and the item states that the consequence of child abuse on students academic performance lead to “social hostile. Item 9 is ranked nineteenth (19th) with a mean score of 2.64 and it states that the consequence of consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “poor orientation towards vocational goals.
Item 8 is ranked last twentieth (20th) with a mean score of 2.18 and it states that the consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance leads to “deformity and mental problems”.
Hypotheses Testing
    The hypotheses tested in this section are based on the questions contained in the section B of the questionnaire. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test with a view to find out if there were significant differences in teachers’ perception of the consequences of child abuse on student’s academic performance on the basis of gender, educational qualification, teaching experience and subject area. Four null hypotheses were tested while the results are presented below: -