THE FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDENTS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Education as the key to development has the capacity to upgrade teaching eectiveness
as well as learning efficiency among learners. Sorts by have being
made by school administrators to improve the performance of Public secondary school students. The school environment, which include the classrooms,
libraries, technical workshops, laboratories, teachers’ quality, school management, teaching methods, peers, etc are variables that act students’ academic achievement (Ajayi, 2001 and Oluchukwu, 2000). Hence, the school environment remains an important area that has to studied and well managed to enhance students’ academic performance.
According to Jam (2009) academic performance is the ability to study and remember facts and being able to communicate your knowledge verbally or on
paper. In other words, academic performance refers to how students deal with their studies and how they cope with or accomplish different tasks given to them by their teachers. Academic performance generally refers to how well a student is accomplishing his or her tasks or studies. There are quite a number of factors that determine the level and quality of students’ academic performance. (Scottk, 2002).
According to Hussain (2006) secondary school students in public schools one
come from economically poor and average income families. These families
face various problems causing emotional disturbance among their children. This singular factor has caused serious damage to the achievement status to secondary school students.
Achievement is generally a pedagogical terminology used while determining learners’ success in formal education and which is measured through reports
examinations, researches, and ratings with numerous factors of variables exerting influence. Essentially, the National Policy on education (Federal Republic
of Nigeria, 2004) has identified school achievement contents according to school subjects which are classified as core or elective subjects. Although studies abound on the causative and predictive nature of factors of study habit on students academic achievement. all factors or variables tend to focus on poor study habit while the elects are yet to be fully accessed on the nations educational development.
