INFLUENCE OF HOME ENVIRONMENT ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Over a period to time, it has been observed the students who are exposed to the same lesson by the same teachers are likely to perform differently when they are evaluated.
According to Fagbamiye (1977). The Board of Education or Ministry of Education would wide suspected teaching methodology and classroom teachers as being the cause at the problem yet it seems to persist. This shows that outside the school environment, students are faced with other factors that influence their academic performances. There is also clear distinction between the gifted children and offers, but even at that there are factors that influence the academic of both gifted and non-gifted children which can not be traced to the school environment.
According to Nwosu (2001) most development countries of the world are faced with problem of limited data on the influence of the home environment on secondary school student academic performance. This is due to low level of development on technology. He further stated that no nation can raise above the level of Education provided for it citizens.
According to daily sun of April Monday 16th 2007, there are social, political, economic, religions diplomatic and other development instabilities which tend to hamper educational practices. Hence many uncontrolled variables are responsible for academic performance of secondary school students.
Education has one of its basic tasks as to train young people to become useful members of the society and this training begins at home in the informal way. The home of the child is the first place he enters as he is born into the world by his or her parents.
