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Social Support And Interpersonal Competence As A Predictor Of Academic Performance Among Senior Secondary School Students
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Teacher support
Researchers have defined teacher support as the “degree to which
students feel supported, respected and valued by their teachers†(Doll,
Zucker and Brehm, 2004). The literature has consistently shown positive,
supportive teacher-student relationships to be fundamental to fostering
desirable academic outcomes (Hamre and Pianta, 2006). For instance,
positive teacher-student relationship serve as a resource for helping
students at risk of academic failure, while conflicting, negative
relationships exacerbate that risk (Ladd and Burgess, 2001). Teachers
have been shown to have an important influence on students’ academic
achievements and they also play crucial role in educational attainment
because the teacher is ultimately responsible for translating policy
into action and principles based on practices during interaction with
the student (Afe, 2001). Both teachers and learners depends on teachers,
no wonder an effective teacher has been conceptualized as one of who
produce desired result in the course of his duty as a teacher (Uchefona,
2001). Many studies have revealed that students academics achievements
is enhanced where the teachers possess adequate knowledge of the subject
matter and a good command of pedagogical skill have a strong positive
effect on students’ academic achievement in regular classroom teaching
(Olarewaju, 1995, Lockhead, &Verspoor 1991).
On the other
hand Interpersonal Competence, this is the skill which helps a person
communicate well. As the name implies interpersonal, it means when the
interaction takes place between two individuals or more. The
communication can take place in any form like verbally, non-verbally,
through gestures, through eye movements, different postures and so on.
In order to make interpersonal competence successful both individuals
must have a common interest in field of experience. Interpersonal
competence is required from students to achieve good academic
performance. Every student is required to have this skill, when a
teacher is teaching the students are required to respond, if this is not
happening it means the communication is not interpersonal. Students
need to be interpersonally competent for the following reasons;
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To clear doubts, if a student had any doubt related to any subject, it
can go away only when they communicate with the teacher. Any concept
left to be understood can only be expatiated by talking or asking
questions.
- To learn more, a student should indulge in two
way communication in order to learn the concept and clear all doubts,
unless the student asks the queries, the individual won’t understand the
study well.
- To diminish the communication gap between the student and the teacher
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all these points mentioned above, if a student does not have
interpersonal competence, the individual student may not be able to
perform well academically, but with a student’s interpersonal skill
he/she is being able to talk freely, ask further questions on subjects
which are not well understood and with that it broadens a student
knowledge on that particular subject being taught.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examined social support and interpersonal competence as a predictor of academic performance among senior secondary school students, a case study of 2 private and 2 public schools at ilishan-remo, ogun state. The study employed the survey design and the purposive sampling technique to select 450 students across all faculties. A well-constructed questionnaire, which was adjudged valid and reliable, was used for collection of data from the respondents. The data obtained through the admini ... Continue reading---
