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THE EFFECT OF HOME BACKGROUND ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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ABSTRACT This project was designed to research into the effects of home background on the academic performance of children children in selected schools in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State. In doing this, three research questions were stated and some basic assumptions made. A sample of one hundred students was drawn out of three selected schools; the research instrument used was the questionnaires while the data analysis involved the use of the research questions. On the basis of the findings that emerged from the study some of the following recommendations recommendations were made: i.
The society should promote the monogamous family image,. This will help to regulate the number of children produced in the family.
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Parents should encourage and motivate their children to study
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The school can help the child especially the extremely dull ones by investigating into their homes background, and assessing likely factors responsible for the child’s dullness and seeking out avenues of helping the child overcome his problem.
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The government should endeavour to provide free nursery education with qualified teachers that will educate the children from their tender ages.
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The government should help the children from poor home by providing an equipping libraries and parks for them in strategic locations
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The
academic
performance
of
any
child
cannot
be
separated from the home background in which the child grows up. A healthy home background offers emotional security to a child.
Agholor (2005), This investigation that has adopted
refined measure of family, influences have tended to show that they are related more strongly to academic outcome, than global measure of family background. The impact of family background on the academic achievement in school is today receiving wide acknowledgment in many, educational circles within the globe, the attention with this factor is receiving is tend credence to this point of view that influence the home has on the child learning. The child’s f undamental undamental concepts of life his values and most of his habits and basic adjustment are established during pre-school years. Asaga (2006) this highlight
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the fact that the home and parent occupy the most important position in the child’s educational environment environment and whatever he could make out of it in the same way Akinboye (1996) trace their view from the time the child is born into the family and felt that the tone of the child mother or child father interaction and the style of discipline in the family may have effect on the (learning) rates of the child. The child’s environment outside the school (his home background) determines his academic performance of the children. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This study is basically to find out how the home background of a child affects his academic performance everyone is born with some potentials, or abilities which could be utilized to the optimum for the development of his personal although students may be exposed to the same teacher and the same condition in the school yet, they may not attain to wonder why there are remarkable differences in their performance
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hence this study is intended to find out to which extent the variable in the home background contribute to his academic performance. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The study is designed to examine the following; following; 1. The
effect
of
family
size
on
students
academic
performance 2. The effect of parent’s socio-economic socio-economic status of children or students academic performance. 3. To ascertain the impact of parents academic qualification on children or students academic performance. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY This study is designed specifically to find out and understand how the child’s home background determine his academic performance, the child’s environment have have helped to bring about a lowered or increased outcomes in the child’s academic performance.
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1. The effect of home environment on the child academic performance. 2. Parents academic qualification as it affect child education education 3. Parent’s socio-economic socio-economic statuses have effect on child education. SIGNIFICANCE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY This study is basically designed to investigate the effect of parental socio-economic background academic qualification size of family the home environment. The study will therefore highlight
the
significant
difference
in
various
home
backgrounds. The study will enable educational and curriculum planners to take full cognizance of individual difference among children in any teaching learning environment while planning of it will enable the teacher to adapt new dimension approaches while teaching finally parents perspective or their educational qualification should encourage the children at home and also provide the maximum stimulation at all time.
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS For the purpose of this study the following research questions are asked; 1.
Does the size of the family and the child position posi tion affect his academic performance?
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Does the academic qualification of the child’s parents affect his academic performance in school
3.
Does the socio-economic class class of a child’s parents affect his academic performance?
4.
Does the home environment has any effect on students academic performance?
LIMITATION OF THE STUDY This study is designed to cover the area of Benin City in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State using some selected secondary schools as the sampled population, it is restricted to just one of the numerous factors that determine the academic performance of students in Nigeria school; this
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factor being how the home background of the child determine his academic performance. DEFINITION OF TERMS The child’s home background: This is the moral intellectual, intellectual,
social and economic status of the child’s family. Society: Society: This includes the family, the school the peer group and all the people that makes up the human environment. environment. Environment of poverty: poverty: This is a state in which the parents are not able to met or provide the basic needs of the child for example good food good shelter and good education, the home deprived of all visual and audio learning aids. Advantage child: child: A child whom all personal needs are met, live in a very educationally stimulating environment and whose educational needs are also met.
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