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Effects Of Peer Pressure On The Academic Perfprmance Of Secondary School Students In Ilishan-remo, Ogun State
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1.6 Significance of Study
The
findings of the study will be of substantial benefits to parents and
guardians, teachers and school administrators, counsellors, society and
the students themselves.
The study will help parents and guardians on
how well to train and bring their child to enable them not to be
vulnerable to the negative influences of peer pressure. The study will
help counsellor to know the right technique to adopt in modifying
negative peer pressure. It will also help them to create discipline in
the life of students.
The teachers will equally benefits from this
study as it will help them what is expected from them in terms of
morality, sanity and good ethical behaviours, as the students sees them
as role-models. The study will help schools to produce disciplined
students who will be useful to the nation because experience has showed
that disciplined students perform academically and better than the
undisciplined counterparts.
The study will inform the students to
know the inherent gains behind positive peer pressure and the inherent
disaster behind negative peer pressure as it relates to their academic
performance. The study will help the society by organizing conferences,
seminars, symposiums, workshops to inform them about the effects of
positive and negative peer pressure. Finally, This study will equally
be helpful to future researchers as it will serve as a source of
research material for them.
1.7 Scope and Limitations of the Study
This
is limited to senior secondary school students because they are
believed to have experienced the good and bad sides of peer pressure
1.8 Definition of Terms
Academic
Performance-The degree to which a student achieves the objectives of
educational outcomes. It is also the extent of a student’s performance
in classroom activities, internal and public examinations.
Peer
Pressure- A force exerts by people that is influenced by ones values and
behaviours either positively or negatively and always associated with
adolescents.
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