RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOME BACKGROUND AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE

ABSTRACT

This study examined relationship between home background and academic performance of secondary school students in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between stable home and students’ academic performance, broken homes and students’ academic performance, and single parent homes and students’ academic performance. Correlational survey research design was used to carry out this study. The population for the study consisted of 1,208students. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 120students of public secondary schools in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using Mean and Standard Deviation while the hypotheses were tested using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC). The results revealed that there was a significant relationship between stable homes and students’ academic performance; broken homes and students’ academic performance and also single parent homes and students’ academic performance. It was recommended that School counsellors, sociologists of education and psychologists should assist students to improve on their academic performance and efforts should be made to find out the type of homes the children come from by their teachers. Parents should also consider the implications of broken homes in the academic performance of their children before embarking on cases of divorce or brokenness of their homes.