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Problems Of Drug Abuse On Student Academic Performance In Secondary Schools
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1.6 Research Hypothesis
This
work is working on the premise that drug abuse is highly rife in
secondary schools and is a great deterrent to learning at this stage.
1.7 Scope of the Study
As
was mentioned in the background to the study of the present research,
this research work would focus it’s study on the prevalence of drug
abuse and it’s hampering of child’s academic performance at secondary
school level only. This means that attention would be given first to the
problems of drug abuse peculiar to secondary school students first
before treating those that they share with other age range.
Secondly,
the scope of this research will be around how drug abuse is problematic
to the child’s academic performance. The health and sociological
implications would be given secondary attention.
1.8 Limitations of the Study
A
research such as this one would require a thorough examination of the
large pool of students and reading materials as it is a research that
requires lots of one on one counselling of students from various
topography which will enquire particularly, of the reasons why they
engage in drug abuse. This means that lots of questionnaires would be
distributed to secondary school students with questions designed to
explicate the problems involved I drug abuse among them aandwhy they
engage in it. The above are the limitations of this research work namely
the time constraints and financial inadequacies to cover wider grounds.
1.9 Definition of Terms
Drug Abuse
This
refers to any use of pharmaceutical products for none medical purposes.
This is also referee to as substance abuse. The drugs in question are
usually illegal in majority of the countries.
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