Teacher-parent relationship and its influence on the academic performance of upper-basic social studies students in kwara central senatorial district
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2019-01
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Defunct Department of Arts and Social Sciences Education, University of Ilorin
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The study concentrated on the influence of teacher-parent relationship on the performance of upper-basic Social Studies students in Kwara central senatorial district. Parent-teacher relationship takes on different forms. It ranges from gestures to informal relationship. The observed increase in teacher-parents relationship and falling standard of education particularly in the basic schools necessitated the study. A descriptive research design was adopted for this study. Population for the study comprises all upper-basic II secondary students in Kwara Central Senatorial District; two (2) local governments areas were purposively selected out of four local government areas in Kwara Central Senatorial District which were Ilorin South and Ilorin West local governments where 150 students were selected from 10 selected schools in Ilorin west and Ilorin south local government using random sampling technique. A researcher-designed questionnaire and performance test, which was validated by experts in the Department of Social Sciences Education, University of Ilorin were used to collect data. The instruments combined were administered on respondents outside the sample pool and it yielded 0.62. Based on the data collected, analyzed with frequency counts, percentages and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient and interpreted, findings were obtained that upper-basic school students teacher-parent relationship was high with 84.0%, also the upper-basic school students’ academic performance was high in Social Studies with 71.3.0%, and finally the findings obtained shown that there was no significant influence of teacher-parent relationship on performance of upper-basic school Social Studies students in Kwara Central Senatorial District. This establishes the fact that better performance of students is not directly linked to teacher-parents relationship. For effectiveness in education, there must be good relationship between students’ parents and their care-giver.
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teacher-parent, performance, influence, social studies, upper-basic