This research will be conducted to evaluate how economic
background affect student’s performance in economics in Ovia North East Local
Government Area of Edo State. The following research questions were formulated
for the study:.
1. Does
the economic status of parents affect the educational performance of student
2. Does
parent’s educational status affect the educational performance of their
children?
3. Does
the family size affect the student’s educational performance?
4. Does
lack of educational facilities influence the educational performance of
students?
Four secondary schools will be surveyed. Students interviewed were
mostly from low economic status parents. With low educational background. It
was found from the study that the education and income of parents affect
student’s performance that the availability of educational facilities has no
effect on student’s performance while that of family size has a positive
relationship with student’s performance. The factors responsible for these
relationships were discussed. Some recommendations and suggestions for further
research were made in the last chapter.
TABLE
OF CONTENT
Introduction
1.1 Background of study
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Research questions
1.4 Purpose of the study
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 The scope of the study
1.7 Limitations
1.8 Definition of terms
Review of related literature
3.1 Methodology
3.2 Population
3.3 Sample
3.4 Instrumentation
3.5 Administration and collection of questionnaire
3.6 Analysis of data
Research question one
Research question two
Research question three
Research question four
Summary of findings
recommendation and suggestions for further research.
5.1 Discussion of findings
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendations and suggestions for further
research
Bibliography
Questionnaire
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
The academic performance of student in economic in secondary
school these days has been attributed to many family factors. Many people
including the sociologist, psychologists and philosopher have carried out a
number of researches into those factors that hinder or enhance student
performance in economics. They include poor quality of teaching, irregular
attendance at school, emotional attitude of the child to school and school
subject, defective physical condition which are manifest in poor hearing, bad
vision, impediment of speech, the environment and the social as well as the
economic background of the come among other related factors. The raging
friction between the school as to which of the two is in fact responsible for
the poor or good performance of student in economic examination has enabled the
researcher to a take a cursory look at the influence of economic background on
the academic performance of student. In his research, Ovia North East Local
Government Area of Edo state is chosen as a case study.
The study is rooted in the theory hat there is need for a close
cooperation between the home and the school for an understanding of the
learning problem of children.
The society has apparently decided for better or worse to educate
it children outside the home in separate, self contained, single purpose
establishments. Having lived of education from home in this way, to go on and
discuss the way they influence each other could be a matter of for they can be
resolved, must at the root of all discussion about teacher parent relation.
There was a time when parents namely entered school except to assault-looking
schoolmaster. Teachers for their part were supposed to be quality of showing no
interest in the home to which their pupils belonged. However, nowadays there is
undoubtedly a considerable upsurge of interest in the relationship between home
and school, and a trend towards ensuring this interest I various formal
organisation and system very many schools have parents-teacher organisation
many areas have action groups of one sort of another, you have the national
confederation of parent-teacher association and the advisory centre for
education, all of whom are very much concerned with home school links for the
purpose of educational achievement of children.
Similarly,
it has been accepted that learning can occur in many different settings, in the
home and play ground, for example as well as in the classroom. Every child
bring with him into the class room all his ear her home training and
experience, a kind of internal environment that makes him an environmental
factors of considerable significance to others. A learning environment is
therefore more than that can be measured in the students immediate physical
surrounding, it includes everything inside and outside the space the child
occupies which in any way affects his behaviour during a particular learning
routine. Economic background characteristics associated with academic performance
and intelligence can be divided into two status variable high economic status
and low economic status. Both status are determined by the level of education,
occupation, and income in the society. These variables though interesting, tell
little about how their effect are mediated to child and into process variables,
such as achievement process of parents, home language models, academic home
guidance and social participation of family.
It is
believed that the level of education determines income and occupation of an
individual. This is in turn determines the persons status. But this is not so
again because of his health. So because of this variance, the researches will
look at the relationship between academic performance and these variables. The
size of the family will not be left out in the research as one of the variable.
Though social class in most often used as a child economic background variable
in western European societies and north America, it is rather difficult, if not
impossible at this stage to use the social class variable in the
developing countries of Asia, Africa and Nigeria in particular in the same way
as it is used in western European countries. Two reasons can be suggested for
this, firstly, there has not been any attempt classify occupations in these
developing countries. Secondly, and perhaps the more important reasons is that
the social system of the extended family in these developing country would make
social class based on occupation meaningless for instance a man in a developing
country in a good job with a very salary per annum, may not afford to live a
middle class family probably because a lot of people depend on his single
salary for their existence so because of this, the size of the family will be
looked at as one of the variable. The different kinds of family-polygamous and
monogamous will not be left out in this research.
The high
light of what will be found in each chapter is as follows: the first chapter
deals with the statement of problems and relevant research questions are
formulated which the second chapter deals with critical reviews of important
literature on the subject. This exercise seen as a guide to reveal the
variables that have been found to be important as well as the gaps in previous
studies on the determinant of performance of individuals. It also enabled the
researcher as well as the useful hypothesis, which emerged from their works. An
examination of the literature also helped in the formulations of the research
problems. Third chapter discusses the various methods which been employed in
collecting the data including the operationalisation of the concepts and the
descriptive statistics. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis of the data
collected. The findings from these analyses are also explained and interpreted
with the context of the theoretical framework. The work ends with chapter five
the conclusions which summaries what had been done in the survival for further
research and then the gaps in the study that can be filled by further research
are also pointed out.
Today
teachers are often blame for the low academic performance of the students
without actually findings out other related factors that can contribute to the
students problems as far as academic is concerned, most parents are quick to
point accusing fingers at both the child and his teachers, should the whole
problems be entirely heaped on teachers who always want the best for their
pupils? One would like to find out the justifications the parents have for
blaming the teachers as regards the low performance of the students in their
academic. The truth is that the foundation of the child’s socialization is laid
at home. More so children spend more time at home than in school. Many factors
associated with the family could have actually contributed to the high or low
performance of the students with the economic as one of them. The class strata
in our society based on economic ground have become common phenomena. There is
an unequal distribution of wealth among citizens. Thus there arise the have and
the have not, the educated and the illiterate poverty stricken masses. The
study therefore considered the influence of those stratified classes on
student’s academic performance in other words, the study is focused upon how
the academic performance of the students can influence by the family economic
status. The following research questions are posed by the researcher.
1. Does
the economic status of parents affect the educational performance of student
2. Does
parent’s educational status affect the educational performance of their
children?
3. Does
the family size affect the student’s educational performance?
4. Does
lack of educational facilities influence the educational performance of
students?
The purpose is to identify the influence of economic background of
student on their academic performance in selected public secondary school. It
is designed to compare the level of academic performance of student from
different economic background. The study will give an insight into how and why
some students perform better than other
The study is designed to find out the influence of economic
inequality on students performance in some selected public secondary school in
Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The study will be of
significant help to educate on how to handle students from different economic
strata so as to increase performance.
It will also enable school administrators to see the need for
providing books, news papers and magazines in the school library knowing fully
well that in the some student may not have opportunity in their house. The
study will also help the teacher in adjusting his or her method for effective
teaching to accommodate every student.
The study
will be used on selected public secondary schools in Ovia North East Local
Government Area of Edo State for the purpose of convenience. The area being a
semi-urban was chosen so as to involved children from various home backgrounds.
The five schools. SSS two students were used for the study the study will only
lower the economic aspect like the parents children in the family.
Economic Background:
This refers to the earning power you have either high or low-income group.
Social Class:
This is a level in the society where individuals regard themselves as equal
either because of their education, occupation of because of the same pattern of
living.
Three categories of economic status:
High economic status-
people that earn N 7,000 and above per annum
Lower educational attainment: Anything below HND.
Small size family: A
family with not more than 6 people i.e. the father, mother and then 4 children.
Educational facilities:
Those things that make learning or instruction easy or simple. They are
facilities for study like library, laboratory etc.
Performance of students: Below
average anything below 45%, average, 45-69, above average-70 and above.
Department | Education |
Project ID Code | EDU0254 |
Chapters | 5 Chapters |
No of Pages | 67 pages |
Reference | YES |
Format | Microsoft Word |
Price | ₦4000, $15 |
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