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FAMILY CHALLENGES AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
This study investigated the influence of family challenges on the academic performance of secondary school students in Rivers State, Nigeria. Eight specific variables, which were family cohesion, father’s presence, mother’s presence, tone of discipline in the family, parent’s work and family balance, parent-child communication, socio-economic status of the family and parent’s marital status were used to determine their influence on students’ academic performance. Eight specific objectives, eight research questions and corresponding eight hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study. The Instrument for data collection was “Family Challenges and Academic Performance of Senior Secondary School Students Questionnaire” (FCAPSSSQ) developed by the researcher to collect data from the respondents. The Cronbach Alpha Analysis was used to compute the reliability of the research instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.87. Simple random sampling was used to select 1,993 from a population of 19,931 students from 18 out of 93 public Senior Secondary Schools. The data were analysed using mean and standard deviation. One-way Analysis of Variance and Independent t–test and statistics were used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings indicated that family challenges influenced the academic performance of secondary school students. It was therefore concluded that pleasant home environment be provided by parents for their wards to improve their academic performance. Finally, it is recommended that proper, guidance and counselling be given to students from single parent homes and grants and bursary be instituted to assist students from poor homes.
Keywords: Family challenges, Education performance, Family status.