SOCIO PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCE AND IMPACT ON ECONOMICS STUDENTS ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AT SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
From the conclusion of facts on psychology, social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
The expressions of knowledge in the real context of relating thought, feeling and behaviors is a greater extent determine student’s performance in school and their adjustment to life. The poor performance of students in economics examinations research review in recent times could be recognized to the changing life pattern in some families looking at the Nigeria economy on inflation rate system, which has render families handicap to meet up with their responsibilities of ensuring a healthy and literate family. The structure of family in terms of size, numbers and income of the family in which a child grows affects his intellectual development; large-size family can reduce the economics student academic achievement due to less or no attention. The problems that arise in families in assisting on assignment, school fees payment, presence in Parent Teachers Associations and many more of influence. The socio-psychological background of a family impacts negatively on the unpleasant performance of the economics student. Family financial resources, which are linked with parents’ occupation and educational attainment, often imply increased learning opportunities both at home and in school. Better-educated parents can contribute to their children’s learning through their day-to-day interactions with their children and involving themselves in their children’s school work.
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, “management of a household, administration”) from οἶκος (oikos, “house”) + νόμος (nomos, “custom” or “law”), hence “rules of the house(hold)”. Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the late 19th century suggested “economics” as a shorter term for “economic science” that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to “mathematics”, “ethics”, and so forth.
