ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS ( EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research work is to analysis socio-economic factors affecting the academic performance of Business Education students in Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Ogun State. This study adopted a descriptive survey design to analysis of socio-economic factors affecting the academic performance of Business Education students. Sample and sampling techniques was selected randomly from each level (100, 200 and 300level) in Business Education department. A population of fifty students each was selected at random from each level, making up the population of One hundred and fifty used as sample from the population. The instrument for data collection choosing by the research was questionnaires. The research revealed that learning facilities influence business education students’ academic performance to a high extent and peer group influence affects students’ academic performance in business studies. The study therefore recommends that, parents should re-examine its financial support to student since such support is viewed as the main contributor towards the student academic performance and parents should always try to encourage their children/ wards in all that they do and try to give moral support so that the children would be emotionally stable and have confidence in all that they do, whether at school or at home.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
School, colleges and universities have no worth without students. Students are the most essential asset for any educational institute. The social and economic development of the country is directly linked with student academic performance. The students’ performance (academic achievement) plays an important role in producing the best quality graduates who will become great leaders and human resources for the country thus responsible for the country’s economic and social development (Ali, Norhidayah, Jusoff, Kamaruzaman, Ali, Syukriah,Mokhtar, Najahand Salamt, AzniSyafena Andin, 2009). Student academic performance measurement has received considerable attention in previous researches, it is a challenging aspects of academic literature, and science students performance are affected due to social, psychological, economic, environmental and personal factors. These factors strongly influence the students’ performance, but these factors vary from person to person and from country to country.
Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person’s work experience and of an individual’s or family’s economic and social position relative to others, based on income and education, and occupation (Marmot, Michael, 2004) indicates When analyzing a family’s social economic status, the household income, earners’ education and occupation are examined, as well as combined income, versus with an individual, when their own attributes are assessed.
