Influence of Home Environment on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Imo State


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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: 3.8, , language: English, abstract: The general purposes of this study is to find out the influence of home environment on study academic performance. Specifically, the study sets out to examine the influence of parental occupation on the academic performance of secondary school students in Owerri metropolis of Imo state. It tries to find out whether the size of the family to which they belong affect the students academic performance in Owerri metropolis; and to determine the extent to which type of family would affect the academic performance of students. This study will be delimited to government owned secondary schools in Owerri. Municipal of Imo state Nigeria. Over a period of time, it has been observed the students who are exposed to the same lesson by the same teachers are likely to perform differently when they are evaluated. According to Fagbamiye, the board education or ministry of education world wide suspected teaching methodology and classroom teachers as being the cause at the problem yet it seems to persist. This shows that outside the school environment, students are faced with other factors that influence their academic performances. There is also clear distinction between the gifted children and others, but even at that there are factors that influence the academic of both gifted and non-gifted children which can not be traced to the school environment.







The effects of family background on the educational productivity and attainment of secondary school students


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Diploma Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - Pedagogic Sociology, grade: B+, Ahmadu Bello University (Institute of Education), course: Professional Diploma in Education, language: English, abstract: Education is key to national and sustainable growth but the family background hampers the educational productivity and attainment of students in training. This research project is an investigation of this problem. This work concentrates on looking at the causes of the problem as well as its effects and it proffers possible solutions to the problem it investigates. It is shocking to discover that the general public is aware of this problem and that it is eating deep into the lives of students from poor family backgrounds because they cannot compete favourably with their fellow students, they exhibit deviant behaviours, have personality and psychological problems, low self esteem/trauma, difficulty in personal and academic adjustment to mention just a few. For this reason this research work, recommended possible solutions as creating an enabling environment for discussion at home after school hours, government/non-governmental organizations to provide support that will augment the efforts of the parents in catering for their children, provision of better nutritional diets to their children, guidance and counseling units be made functional to help counsel students who come from poor family backgrounds among others.




The Relationship Between Broken Homes and Adolescents' Behaviour in Senior Secondary Schools in Nigeria


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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, grade: 3.5, Obafemi Awolowo University, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between broken homes and adolescents behaviour in Senior Secondary Schools. Four research questions were raised: What are the causes of broken homes in the society? What is the relationship between broken home and the academic performance of adolescents in senior secondary schools? What is the relationship between broken homes and social relationship of the adolescents? What is the relationship between the emotional stability manifested and the gender sociorelationship of adolescents who come from broken home and those from intact home? There is a global awareness of the importance of the home environment on adolescents’ behaviour and relationship in the society. In Nigeria, most home are not intact as a result of issues of incompatibility of the couples, misconception and misunderstanding. The home lays the bedrock of development of a child in all stages of life and it has a greater impact on how they behave in the society. Adolescents from broken home engage in risky behaviors due to lack of guidance and affection from home which makes them to be less effective among peers, schools and the society at large. The teachers commonly describe adolescents from broken homes as more hostile, aggressive, anxious, fearful, hyperactive and distractive than adolescents from intact family.




Influence of Selected Home Environmental Factors


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The research aimed at finding out how some home environmental factors influence academic performance among school students in public secondary schools in Ngong Division. The central problem was that although students are taught by the same teachers, cover the same syllabus and have same facilities, their academic performance differed greatly.The study was carried out in six public secondary schools in Ngong Division with a target population comprising of form four students. Ex post facto design was adopted. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sampled schools. Systematic sampling technique was used to identify the sample among the students. Data was collected using a questionnaire which was administered to the students. The instrument was pre-tested in two schools and by thirty students. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data collected using the SPSS package.




A STUDY OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN RELATION TO PARENTAL BEHAVIOUR, SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT AND ADJUSTMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TRIBAL STUDENTS IN ASSAM


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India is regarded as the most second largest tribal dominated country in the world. The tribal people are intrinsic part of the national life which has been instrumental in contributing to the complex amalgam of national culture by their rich cultural heritage. From thousands of years, they survived in a natural environment with simple lifestyle and developed their cultural pattern which is congenial to their consequent physical and social environment. Even the references of such tribal groups are found in the ancient literature of Ramayana and Mahabharata. At present, the tribal population of India falls into three main zones namely, North Eastern Zone, the Central Zone and the Southern Zone.