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Parental Socio-economic Background And Students’ Academic Performance
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CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
1.1 Background to the Study
A
person’s education is closely linked to their life chances, income, and
wellbeing (Battle and Lewis 2002), therefore it is important to have a
clear understanding of what benefits or hinders one is educational
attainment. Several topical areas are mostly commonly linked to academic
performance of student, such as school factors, family factors and
peers factors. Generally, academic performance is how well a student an
individual achieves a set objectives.
School environment factors such
as school size, neighborhood and relationship between teacher and
student also influence test score (Crosnoe, Johnson and Elder 2004).
Also, family background has been found to influence student’s academic
performance and socio-economic statues, parental involvement, and family
size are particularly important factors (Majoribanks, 2006). Peer
influence can also affects student’s performance in that peer pressure
and peer conformity can lead to an individual participating in risk
taking behavior which has negative effect on academic performance.
Hunt,
2005 and Miller et al, 2005 define social class as literacy of social
order or group more or less hereditary but with provision for movement
up and down the ladder, all the class are endowed in unequal degree with
right and privilege, obligation degree duties in accordance with their
position in the social scales. In the Nigerian society, the social class
one belongs depends on the educational level, occupation and
environmental factors such as circumstance of birth, thus the home
becomes and important socializing agent especially in the important
socializing agent especially in the early development of the person’s
education (Aguokogbuo 2005). At birth an individuals is totally
dependent on his/her parent and others grown-up individual in his/her
immediate family for guidance. Man is an embodiment of nature and
nurture, nature here means biological inheritance from biological parent
while nurture is environmental influences. At birth an individual is
firmly rooted in or dependent on the parent for socialization process
and such a way, social attitude, value norms etc are captured by the
individual. According to Locke as cited in Augokogbuo (2005) a man at
birth has no innate ideas but rather his mind is tabula rasa (clean
slate) thus the original nature of man is neither good or bad but
neutrally. A child becomes whatever the society makes of him.
Education
is regarded as an important tool for achieving national objective, it
is a venture that every society and individual needs. In line with the
April 2000 education for all commitment, the Nigerian government in the
National Policy for Education (2004) section I, sub-section c posited
that every Nigerian child shall have a right o equal educational
opportunities irrespective of any real or imagined disabilities each
according to his ability.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study analysed the parental Socio-Economic background and students’ academic performance in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, using the descriptive research design and the population of all the teachers and students in the Public Senior Secondary Schools a sample of 40 students and 10 teachers were randomly selected from all the four Public Senior Secondary Schools out of the 13 in Ojo Local Government Area through stratified random sampling ... Continue reading---
