Determinants of Secondary School Students' Academic Performance as Perceived by Secondary School Teachers in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State
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2016
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Al-Hikma Journal of Education
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The paper investigated the determinants of secondary school students' academic performance as perceived by secondary school teachers in florin West Local Government Kwara State, Nigeria. The differences in the respondents' expression on the bases of age, gender school type were also examined. A total of 200 teachers were selected using stratified and simple random sampling techniques. Data was collected from the respondents with the use of a Researcher-designed instrument entitled "Determinants of Student's Academic Performance Questionnaire (DSAPQ). The validity of the instrument was done by experts and the reliability of the instrument was ascertained using test re-test reliability method with r value of 0.89. The hypotheses generated were analyzed using the t-test statistics and Analysis of variants (ANOV4) at 0,05 alpha level. Result showed that the major determinants of academic performance are lack of available resource materials, students' poor study habits and poor knowledge of English Language. The study indicted no significant difference in the perception of teachers on the determinants of academic performance based on gender and type of school, however, there was a significant difference based on age. Recommendations were made that school administrations should provide proper learning resource materials for students; counsellors should help students to cultivate good study and reading habits. Government should also employ qualified teachers in schools
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Determinants, Academic Performance, Perception, Secondary School Teachers