A Study Of The Influence Of Developmental Psychology On The Academic Performance Of Secondary School Students

A Study Of The Influence Of Developmental Psychology On The Academic Performance Of Secondary School Students

Abstract

This exploration work was aimed at probing the influence of experimental psychology on the academic performance of secondary academy scholars. The focus of this design was on Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Data was collected by means of questionnaire which was administered to the two hundred( 200) sample repliers sleeted through arbitrary slice fashion. The data collected from the repliers were anatomized and interpreted through the use of simple probabilities. The findings revealed that problem of poor academic performance by the secondary academy scholars, has to do with the secondary academy pupil mind set, the kind of homes they come from, the kind of musketeers they associate with, the absence of a experimental cerebral centre in their seminaries, lack of trained staffs, absence of a guidance counsellor, among others, all these and further led to the final conclusion which the experimenter arrived at, that a experimental cerebral centre has a major influence on the academic performance of secondary seminaries, and later the experimenter made some recommendations.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Chapter One

preface

Background of the study

Statement of the problem

Purpose of the study

Significance of the study

Research question

compass of the study

Limitations of study

description of study

Chapter Two

Literature Review

Chapter Three

exploration methodology

Population and sample

Source of data collection

Sample and slice system

Testing design/ procedure

Questionnaires

particular interviews

Validity of instrument

trustability of the instrument

Analysis of data

Chapter Four

Analysis of data

Summary of findings

Specific findings

Chapter Five

Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

Conclusion

Recommendations

Suggestions for farther studies

References

Questionnaires

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

This design is centered around the employment of experimental psychology in the secondary academy education, in Oredo original government area and the extent to which its impact has told the pupil of the seminaries in that original government area. One of the most burning issues in the minds of people in Nigeria in regard to education moment is the standard or quality being achieved from the system. Qualitative education should lead to empirical advancements through knowledge and chops. In ultramodern times of technological advancement each over the world, it’s possible to acquire knowledge in fields of mortal trials and good communication chops. The education sector is geared towards achieving the public pretensions of profitable and social development. One way of achieving this is through the education of the pupil in secondary seminaries. Nigeria is a developing country with different kinds of problems. Student’s performance in their academics is as a result of their internal development how they develop mentally determines their outgrowth physically. Their internal development can either have a negative or positive influence on their academic performance. Nigeria academy moment, particularly in secondary academy, pupil perform inadequately due to the terrain and their mindset.

The primary function of secondary academy is to prepare the pupil for the point, how to acclimatize the influence, the terrain in a positive way and also to prepare them for tertiary institution. The stages of development of mortal being after birth begins at immaturity from where a baby goes through the other stages of a toddler, early nonage, late nonage, nonage, early majority, middle age, and old age. At these different stages of development there’s a need to apply a specific methodology in other to achieve the stylish result in educating individualities grounded on the particular stage which they may fall in at a given time of their total development. Experimental psychology, also known as mortal development, is the scientific study of methodical cerebral changes that do in mortal beings over the course of their life span. Firstly experimental psychology was concerned with babies and children, the field has expanded to include nonage and adult age development, ageing, and the entire life span.

This field examines change across a board range of motifs including motor chops and other sickie- physiological processes similar as cognitive development involving areas like problem working moral understanding and abstract understanding language accession, another sickie- physiological process covered in the field experimental psychology, comprises of social, personality and emotional development. Other sickie- physiological process treated in this design is tone- conception and identify conformation. The fallen standard of education in Nigeria makes imperative a exploration into the styles and ways with which pupil are educated in secondary academy, the extent to which they’re applied and the goods they eventually have on these scholars. Experimental psychology explores issues similar as the extent to which development occurs through the gradational accumulation of knowledge versus stage like development, or the extent to which children are born with capture internal structure as opposed to generally unbosoming through experience. This exploration work aims at assessing the study of experimental psychology and asserting its influence on secondary academy pupil, and suggesting further effective ways in which the study of experimental psychology can prop in perfecting pupil performance in their academics.

Statement Of The Problem

With the last three decades, it’s observed that the performance of pupil in Oredo Local Government Area, has drastically dropped at an intimidating rate, particularly in secondary seminaries. this is veritably important reflected in the periodic results of the elderly secondary academy instrument examination( SSCE). At both the inferior and elderly secondary seminaries independently. This has led the government agencies and ministry responsible for education in Oredo Local Government, to demand results and reforms from both private and public secondary seminaries within the Original Government Area. There are more complains that colorful programs have been put forward, further backing has been called for, yet the decline of the quality of education in Oredo Local Government has steadily continued. Export argue that the areas of guidance and comforting, personality, social and emotional assessment of scholars have been gravely undervalued and neglected in lieu of further lectures and reading hours. It’s assumed that this has contributed the most to the lapse in pupil’s performance, by having overlooked their behavioural tendency and general psyche towards literacy.

In view of these several question have raised towards chancing a continuing result to the problem of declining academic performance in Oredo Local Government, these include

Exploration Questions

In view of the entire problem presently anguishing the educational sector in Nigeria, there was need to raise certain question to act as a companion in creating a model under which the exploration will be carried out.

1) Are there experimental psychology centres in secondary academy in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State?

2) Do scholars pay freely visits to the experimental cerebral centres in their seminaries?

3) Does the operation of a development psychology is secondary seminaries have any influence on secondary academy scholars geste ?

4) Do pupil ameliorate academically when experimental psychology is employed in their seminaries?

5) Do preceptors in the secondary academy have a introductory knowledge of experimental psychology?

6) Are the experimental cerebral centres adequately manned by professed staff?

7) Do peer groups have effect on the academic performance of secondary academy scholars?

8) Does the general psychology of secondary academy scholars have effect on their academic performance?

9) Can acceptable communication with a guidance counselor ameliorate the academic performance of secondary academy scholars?

10) Do children living with both parents performance better academically than those living with a single parent?

11) Do you agree wallflowers perform better academically in secondary seminaries than backslappers?

12) scholars whose seminaries have guidance and comforting services perform better in seminaries than those whose seminaries don’t have a guidance and comforting office?

Purpose Of The Study

This study is specifically designed to probe into the study of experimental psychology and its influence on secondary academy scholars in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. Emphasiswill be placed on the actuality of a Experimental Psychology centre and a guidance comforting office in the secondary seminaries, in Oredo Local Government Area and the quality of staffing manning those services. The nature of family issues, single parent’s home, peer group and personality of scholars in these institutions will be examined to makeup a clear picture of their goods on the pupil’s academic and adulterous performance. sapience handed by these study, and the result proffered will produce abroad grounded platform from which society can exactly attack the patient problems of abating educational performance of scholars, especially in secondary seminaries.

Significance Of The Study

This exploration has the thing of upping the educational system in Nigeria, by belabor on the significance of applying experimental psychology in the tutoring of nonage during a critical experimental stage of their lives. It’ll give the missing perspective responsible for the failure of all sweats by the government and private sector to uplift educational standard in Nigeria while pressing experimental psychology as a field on which important emphasis has to be laid in order to achieve a sustainable enhancement in the educational sector of Nigeria.

Compass Of The Study

This design is concentrated on the entire seminaries located in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. This is because it’s in this original government area that we’ve the major complains about the poor academic performance of secondary academy scholars. The academy will include government and private possessed secondary seminaries. There are nineteen secondary seminaries in Oredo Local Government Area, five of the secondary seminaries are Jesse, five in Mosogar and nine in New Benin, being the biggest community in Oredo Local Government Area. Oredo Local Government has an area of 536 km2 with a population of 203, 592 people( public population commission, 2006 tale). The quality and details of the content of this paper isn’t any way compromised, therefore it’s recommended for farther academic exercise and public consumption.

Delineations Of Terms

Development Is defined as the gradational growth of commodity, so that it becomes further advance, strongeretc.

Psychology Is defined as the scientific study of the mind and how it influences.

Behaviour How one thinks is what makes them act or bear in a particular way.

Guidance Is defined as help or advice that’s given to notoriety especially by notoriety aged or with further experience conditioning all takes place under the guidance of an experience instructor.

Counsel Is defined as an advice especially given by aged people or experts.

Comforting Is defined as a professional advice about a problem.

Guidance counselor Is defined as notoriety who advices children.

Peer Is defined as a person who’s the same age or who has the same social status as you.

Peer group Is defined as a group of people of the same age or social status.