Assessment Of Parent’s Socio-economic Background And Its Impact On Academic Achievement Of Secondary Schools Student

Assessment Of Parent’s Socio-economic Background And Its Impact On Academic Achievement Of Secondary Schools Student

Chapter One

Preface

Background Of The Study

As defined by the United Nations, education is the process of conducting knowledge, training, and learning in order to enhance knowledge while also developing chops, stations, andmorals.However, it can help a person’s capacity to profit from unborn openings in life, If meetly directed. In other words, education assists a person in fully developing his or her chops, prepares him or her to be a responsible citizen, and provides him or her with the stimulation and chance to enhance his or her artistic life. Education not only imparts information and capacities, but it also instills values, trains instincts, and encourages the development of positive stations and habits.

As the major agents of socialization, parents have primary responsibility for the education of their children, which is frequently an informal style of education that’s supplemented by formal education entered at a formal education institution. The responsibility for transferring children to academy and icing that they’re making academic progress falls on the shoulders of the parent as a result of this. Given the critical part education plays in the development of a nation, numerous individualities are upset about the quality of education handed to children. Consider the National Policy on Education( 1998), which focuses on the creation of a robust and mannish country by emphasizing the need of qualitative education. In order for this thing to come a reality, a variety of rudiments must be taken into consideration, one of which being the child’s home terrain and family history.

numerous pastoral andsub-urban occupants are unfit to pay the academy freights for their children because of fiscal constraints. Children are impelled to share in peddling, subsistence husbandry, housekeeping, and other slavish conditioning in order to fund their educational hobbies and give for their families. Another aspect that might have an impact on a pupil’s academic success is their health state, which can be traced back to their parents’ socio- profitable backgrounds. Academic performance of children in pastoral communities where nutritive status is low and health problems are frequent has been observed by Adewole( 2005) to be significantly hampered. In a analogous tone, competent parenthood accompanied by a stable profitable base can lead to a pupil achieving high situations of academic accomplishment. A literacy terrain that isn’t free of walls, obstacles, or distractions similar as noise, gas/ bank pollution, and so on can pose health pitfalls to scholars, which in turn can vitiate or weaken their attention or perceptual focus on literacy, performing in poor literacy issues. requests and garages in close propinquity to seminaries have long presented a peril to schoolchildren. Student life and focus have long been jeopardized by the noise and pollution expiring from these sources.

Although socio- profitable status( SES) is generally defined as a blend of education, income, and profession, there are other ways to quantify SES. It’s extensively understood to relate to an existent’s or group’s social standing or class, as opposed to their profitable status. At some point, low socio- profitable status and its supplements, similar as a lack of educational attainment, poverty, and ill health, have an impact on our whole society. According to exploration, children from low socioeconomic position( SES) families and communities develop academic capacities at a slower rate than children from advanced socioeconomic status groups.

Statement Of Problem

The consequences of parents’ socio- profitable backgrounds on the academic success of their children have been a significant element in the country’s educational system during the last decade, particularly in the public seminaries. colorful sociological seminaries of study have asserted that when determining whether a child performs well or inadequately at academy, it’s extremely important to distinguish between the influence of the socio- profitable background of the parents and the academic achievement and attainment of their children’s is extremely important. Coleman( 1975) and Medill( 1963) have claimed that the fiscal situation of parents, as well as their degree of education, has a significant impact on their children’s academic success. This is due to the extensively held belief that educated parents place a high emphasis on education in their children. The child’s parenting, on the other hand, has an impact on his or her achievement in academy. As observed by Alken and Barbarin( 2014), the education system in low socioeconomic status neighborhoods is constantly under- resourced, which has a mischievous impact on scholars’ academic achievement. As a result, academic performance is hampered among families from low socioeconomic status areas because they’re less likely to have the fiscal coffers or time available to give their children with academic help. Children from low- income families are more likely than others to get a weak foundation in early nonage care, similar as at home or with their maters , day care, preschool, nursery academy, primary and secondary seminaries, and other institutions. Due to a lack of coffers, the children were unfit to get tutoring accoutrements at home or in academy, and individual assignments were unfit to be organized. This causes pupil to lose interest in some subjects as a consequence of a poor foundation, and as a result, when they reach their adolescent stage and sit for elderly secondary academy tests, they don’t score well. The reserve is the case with those children belonging to middle and upper class families. As a result, the pupils will warrant the capacities that are anticipated of them at their position, which will have an impact on the country’s individual and specialized growth. As a result, it was against this background that the experimenter was inspired to explore parent’s socio- profitable background and its impact on academic achievement of their children in secondary seminaries.

Objects Of The Study

The broad ideal of this study is to examine influence of parent’s socio- profitable background and its impact on academic achievement o secondary seminaries pupil in Bwari Area council. Explicitly the study’s specific objects are

Establish the influence of connubial status of parents on academic achievement of elderly secondary academy scholars of Bwari area council.

ii. Determine the influence of maternal position of education on academic achievement of elderly secondary academy scholars in Bwari area council.

iii. Establish the influence of income of parents on academic achievement of elderly secondary academy scholars in Bwari area council

iv. Determine the influence of occupation type of parents on academic achievement of elderly secondary academy scholars in Bwari area council

Exploration Questions

The exploration is guided by the following question

Does connubial status of parents have a significant influence on elderly secondary academy scholars academic achievement Bwari area council?

ii. Does maternal position of education have any significant influence elderly secondary academy scholars academic achievement in Bwari area council?

iii. Will Parent position of income have a significant impact on elderly secondary academy scholars academic achievement in Bwari area council?

iv. Does occupation type of parents have any influence on elderly secondary academy pupil academic achievement of Bwari area council?

Significance Of The Study

The development of a pupil into a sound and effective citizen depends on the academic achievement and position of educational attainment. Hence, the experimenter is of the opinion that the findings of study will give useful data which will go a long way to ameliorate academic performances and achievements of pupil in secondary academy in Bwari Area Council.

it is imaged that the findings of this study may expose some factors that might be responsible for poor performance of scholars ’ in academy with emphasis to parent socio- ecoomic status. Hence the result have would be helpful for counselling parent to pay further attention to their ward educational requirements and give them with installations and support necessary for their academic attainment.

The study will produce applicable mindfulness for the enhancement of education to meet global trend and alert both parents and government of the need to give acceptable psychical and material stimulant for scholars to attain good educational achievement in elderly secondary seminaries. The linked areas where government at different situations could come in to ground the gap of educational attainment of children from low and high income earned background in the society. Eventually the study will contribute to body of being literature on parent socio- profitable status and therefore serve as a reference material to both scholars and pupil who wishes to conduct farther exploration in affiliated fiend.

Compass And Delimitation

The compass of this study borders on parent’s socio- profitable background and its impact on academic achievement of secondary academy pupil. The study will further examine if factors similar as connubial status of parent, position of income, occupation type of parent and their position of education will have any significant influence on pupil academic achievement. The study is still demarcated to Bwari Area Council in FCT Abuja.

Limitation Of The Study

Like in every mortal bid, the experimenters encountered slight constraints while carrying out the study. The significant constraint was the skimp literature on the subject owing that it’s a new converse therefore the experimenter incurred more fiscal charges and important time was needed in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature, or information and in the process of data collection, which is why the experimenter resorted to a limited choice of sample size covering only elderly secondary seminaries in Bwari Area Council in FCT Abuja. therefore findings of this study can not be used conception in other elderly secondary seminaries in other countries within Nigeria. also, the experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work will stymie maximum devotion to the exploration. Howbeit, despite the constraint encountered during the exploration, all factors were played down in other to give the stylish and make the exploration successful.

Description Of Terms

In order to avoid misapprehension of terms, the following terms used in this study and their delineations are given in agreement in this study as follows

Socio- profitable Status The socio- profitable status of an individual in a family within any given society is determined by the position of education, income, occupational background and other criteria of social class.

Academic Achievement/ Performance This refers to how much an existent has achieved or attain after a course of educational training in a academy settings.

Polygamous Family This is a custom in which a man is married to further than one woman at a time.

Monogamous Family This is the practice of a man being married to a woman at a time.

Broken Home This is a situation whereby the parents of the homes are piecemeal or disassociated, that’s the parents of a child aren’t living together( in utmost cases, the children warrant care, security and training).

Unbroken Home Then the co-operation exists between the father, mama and children, because they’re together and not disassociated. In this practice the children enjoy care, security, training, etc. So the child is well provisioned for.