AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY ON STUDENT’S SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1   Background to the Study

The goal of a policy is to provide a foundation or support for an organization’s official actions. “A policy is an overarching guide that establishes the fundamental bounds and direction of administrative activity,” explains Terry Awolabi (1989). “A policy defines the space in which decisions must be made, but it does not make the decision,” he explains. Educational policies are government-led initiatives that shape the direction of the educational system (Okoroma Musa, 2000). Education, according to Osokoya Amudat (1987), is a unique means for a community to fully integrate its young people. As a result, every modern civilization requires educational policies to help it through this process. According to Awokoya Akinsanya (1981), educational policy is intended to improve people’s quality of life. He

believes that each policy should be tailored to individual needs, community pressures, and the level of complexity and sophistication with which socialized employees must be educated and prepared to meet these demands. According to Awokoya Akinsanya (1981), the following elements are critical in guiding the development of an acceptable educational policy.

Employees and employers in businesses where the success policy is completely goal oriented, prospects are offered as to time frames for accomplishments, and employers are driven, among other things, by failure and success, look solely at the outcome and judge success in quantity. With a project involving numerous variables, the ultimate outcome, which could be in the form of customers or sales, is numbered to indicate good or bad performance and to determine the project’s success.

majority of employee awards. Aside from work attitude and devotion, the remaining elements that define a company’s incentive system are all based on results. The most frequently asked questions are “how much?” and “how many?”

This success and failure strategy has been implemented in schools all the way down to kindergarten, dividing children based on the yardstick used to measure these things into those who fail and those who succeed. Other, more complex types of learning, as well as children’s learning speeds, receive less attention (Terry Awolabi, 1989). The confluence of differences is compressed into a system of measures devised by educators in order to enable public instruction.

Furthermore, these rules do not take the nature of the information into account.

imparted. Drawing and fine art are assessed using the same techniques and are intertwined with other subjects in determining success or failure at the kindergarten and primary school levels.

1.2 Problem Identification

One might wonder where the concepts of effectiveness, result, success, or failure come from, and whether they are found in target and result driven organizations. One might also wonder if these types of goal setting are applicable to all other establishments and institutions whose mandates do not necessarily share the same clear notions of success and failure (Terry Awolabi, 1989). As a result, the current study seeks to delve into the impact of policy implementation on student success and failure in government.

1.3 The Study’s Objectives

The overarching goal

The purpose of the study is to look into the impact of policy implementation on student success and failure in government. The research will be guided by the following criteria:

To investigate the reasons for secondary school student failure in government.

To discover the goal of the government’s implementation policy on student success and failure.

To assess the impact of policy implementation on secondary school students’ success and failure in government.

To make recommendations on how educational policies can improve student success in government.

1.4 Research Concerns

The following study questions have been prepared:

What factors contribute to secondary school student failure in government?

What is the goal of the government’s implementation policy on student success and failure?

What are the consequences?

of government policy implementation on the success and failure of secondary school students?

What are the suggested educational policies to improve student success in government?

1.5 Importance of the Research

The significance of this research work would be felt in the area of academic policy making because it would shed much needed light on the benefits and drawbacks of the policy and its implementation on students. Not only do students’ grades and performance in school matter, but so do their academic careers and beyond. Because of this policy, many students in our universities are grade conscious, and as a result, they graduate with little real knowledge of the subject of their study.

The study will also be important for the

academic community because it will add to the existing literature.

1.6 The Study’s Scope

The investigation will look into the causes of secondary school student failure in government. The study will also determine the goal of the policy implementation on student success and failure in government. The study will look into the impact of policy implementation on the success and failure of secondary school students in government. Finally, the study will make recommendations on how educational policies can improve student success in government. As a result, the scope of this study will be limited to Cross Rivers State.

1.7 The Study’s Limitations

As with any other research, the researcher encountered constraints such as a lack of needed accurate materials on the topic under study and an inability to obtain data.

cause of this study. The researcher faced financial constraints in obtaining relevant materials as well as printing and collating questionnaires. Furthermore, time is a constraint because the researcher must shuttle between writing the research and engaging in other academic work, which makes the researcher uncomfortable.

1.8 Glossary of Terms

Policy: The rules and guidelines that govern an organization’s internal and external actions in specific situations.

 

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