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Social Support And Interpersonal Competence As A Predictor Of Academic Performance Among Senior Secondary School Students
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
One cannot indeed gainsay the fact that social support and
interpersonal competence play fundamental roles on the academic
performance of students. It has equally been observed and established
that the success or otherwise of a student is largely determined by the
students social support and interpersonal competence. Against the
backdrop of the above understanding, one can therefore, submit here that
barring exceptional cases, students from well-to-do background tend to
do well in schools compared to their counterparts from penurious
background This indeed has an influence on the performance of and
achievement of the students from the opposing/divergent backgrounds.
In other words, the motivation (both intrinsic and extrinsic) that will
bring about academic success is lacking. The government or public
schools lack adequate facilities such as textbooks, good
classroom building and furniture. Also, such schools lack access to the
internet. They have poor library, inadequate human resources in the form
of teachers. Therefore, most of them have to struggle to learn on their
own unlike their contemporaries from the elite background. For a few of
them who see the need to study hard to succeed in life, getting
admission into the tertiary institution becomes very difficult. Besides,
they either seek for a scholarship or struggle very hard through sheer
labour to meet up with the financial demands.
In the same
vein, the highly educated or parents in the higher social class send
their children to private schools where everything is provided for the
children to learn. Relevant academic materials such as internet
services, textbooks and the like are made available. This category of
students have good learning environment and are often motivated to
learn. A growing speculation holds that some of these children from the
highly placed homes do not perform well at schools. Some of the reasons
that may be advanced include: they are spoon-fed, over pampered, lazy
and often not disciplined to study or work hard. They come to school and
refuse to learn. They just want to fulfill the desires of their
parents. Some of them are of the view that they just need to learn how
to read and write so that they can sign cheques or take over the
businesses or chains of companies that are owned by their parents. Their
parents because they are highly placed have promised those schools
abroad or even going to the extent of paying people to write exams for
them. This research is therefore geared towards examining and
unravelling the fundamental influence of social support and
interpersonal competence of students academic performance in Ikenne
local government area of Ogun State.
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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---
