THE COMPARISONS AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES OF STUDENTS WHO SAT FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION WAEC AND NECO EXAMINATIONS FROM 2007-2011
ABSTRACT
This paper compares and examines the performance of secondary school students who were candidates in food and nutrition examinations of both the West
African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) from 2003-2012. Through quantitative analysis, the researcher thoroughly
examined and analyzed results and statistics from both examining bodies in Nigeria, and to also identify margin of errors recorded in the chosen study areas.
The researcher undertook a quantitative analysis of the performance of candidates who wrote the food and nutrition examinations in the following statesKano,
Lagos, Enugu, Akwa-Ibom and Rivers State so as to establish their comparability for control purposes. The research design was correlation. A sample of 347,609 candidates was drawn from a population of 1,422,133 examination candidates using a purposive sampling technique. The instruments for data collection included WAEC and NECO SSCE results forms. Ten (10) hypotheses were tested with the T-test set at 0.05 alpha levels. Findings indicated a statistically significant difference
level between candidates’ performance in WAEC and NECO in food and nutrition in all sampled states as well as performance dependency on the education policies and facilities provided by the state governments.
