COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (2003 – 2007)

COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS (2003 – 2007)

Abstract

comparing academic achievement The study compared junior science students’ academic results in external exams taken between 2003 and 2007. This research has a survey research methodology. In order to determine broad opinion, a vast number of persons were involved in the research. The Enugu North Local Government Area hosted the study. The region is a part of the Enugu Educational Zone. All of the students and staff who attend junior secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State, make up the study’s population.20, 470 people make up the student population, while 4, 300 people are teachers. Out of the junior secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State, we used four of them as our sample. To guarantee that the pertinent characteristics of the population were appropriately represented, ten (10) students from each of the schools utilized in the table above were chosen by random sampling techniques. Five (5) employees (teachers) were sampled from each of the schools. To elicit replies on the items in the questions, a questionnaire design was utilized as the instrument.The four-like scale of strongly agreed (SA), agreed (A), disagreed (D), and severely disagreed (SD) was employed by the researchers (SD). The column that best captures the respondents’ opinions for each item must be checked by the respondents. In addition to being collected through items, the questionnaire will be given to ten (10) students from each school and five (5) teachers from each school. The data was analyzed and interpreted by the researchers using means. The following scoring interval was used to interpret the data: academic performance comparison

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

comparing academic achievement It can be difficult to gauge a student’s academic achievement because it depends on socioeconomic, psychological, and environmental factors. With the primary goal of maximizing profit through the provision of high quality education that results in students who are highly educated, skilled, and mannered in accordance with needs and expectations of the constantly rising market, education should be developing as a profitable enterprise. According to popular perception, there are twogroups of pupils, namely those who advance and those who don’t, as widely seen. Since the new paradigm for learning assumes that all students can and should learn at higher levels, learning abilities are another factor that has an impact on students’ performance. However, this should not be seen as a restriction because other factors like race, gender, and sex can also have an impact. Hansen (2000). (2000).The effects of age, education, and distance from learning were discussed by Mishae (2001). In his explanation, emphasis is placed on the students’ performance as it relates to their readiness to participate in a particular academic discipline; for example, a student who is not capable of studying sciences in secondary school may choose to do so because his or her friends are offering the subjects. According to Winston et al. (2002), students’ impatience is also a factor in their academic success (this time discount behavior). According to Yuonne (1998), academic performance in secondary school pupils shows statistically significant disparities, and this dependence on socioeconomic background (SEB) is further explained. According to Alexander (2001), certain of the administrative procedures used in secondary schools, such as organized study groups, debating clubs, media and cultural clubs, etc., can have an impact on students’ academic achievement. comparing students’ academic achievements. According to Bello Lawel, a member of the All Nigeria Committee of Secondary School Principals with a base in Abuja (ANCOPSS). The reality is that Nigeria doesn’t normally have a strong reading culture. To make matters worse, the majority of our pupils nowadays scarcely read at all. Instead, they squander their valuable time playing video and computer games, watching television or movies, listening to music, or playing music. comparing students’ academic achievements. Mohammed, a different educationist, blamed the government’s laziness and failure to effectively fund the education system for the country’s poor performance on the external exams in 2009. He claims that despite our repeated cries for increased funding for the education sector, none of them have been heard. For instance, UNESCO advises allocating 26% of a country’s budget to the education sector, yet that is not what Nigeria does.The education sector receives lip attention from the government. Other nations that value education have proactively taken steps to effectively fund their educational system. For instance, Ghana has budgeted 29% for education, which is significantly higher than the UNESCO recommended. The same is true for nations like South Africa and Botswana, which gave the education sector 35 and 37 percent of their budgets, respectively. Therefore, we would continue to threaten our children’s future unless these changes were made. comparing students’ academic achievements.

The performance of secondary school students in external exams has been a persistent problem in Nigeria generally and in Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State, in particular.

Language serves as an institutional medium. Effective teaching and learning depend on the learner and the teacher having effective communication. Business education is a “Lingua Franka” in Nigeria. In all Nigerian schools, it is used to communicate with the learner instead of the vernacular. There really isn’t enough emphasis on the value of business education. That is why it may be seen virtually daily in the school schedule.

Unfortunately, a quick glance at how pupils performed in the English language, namely computer and integrated science, in external exams in the Eungu North Local Government Area is not particularly impressive. Since computer and integrated science are relatively recent developments in science and technology, the researchers are interested in learning why case study performance in business education has consistently been low from 2003 to 2007.

Second, what resources are available in Enugu Local Government Area for teaching and learning the three topics for the Junior Secondary School