COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INTEGRATED SCIENCE IN EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS FROM 2003-2007
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COMPARISON
OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INTEGRATED SCIENCE IN EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS FROM
2003-2007
ABSTRACT
The research
investigated the comparison of academic performances of junior Science in
External Examinations from 2003- 2007. This study is a survey research design.
It is a research conducted on a large number o f people to identify general
opinion. The study was carried out in Enugu North Local Government Area. The
area belongs to Enugu Educational Zone. The population of the study consist of
all the students and teachers in junior secondary schools in Enugu North Local
Government Area, Enugu State. The population of the students are 20, 470 while
that of teachers are 4, 300. We used four junior secondary schools as our
sample out of the junior secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government
Area, Enugu State. Random sampling
techniques were used to select ten (10) students from each of the schools used
in the table listed above to ensure that the relevant features of the
population were adequately represented. Five (5) staff (teachers) from each of
the schools were also sampled. The instrument used was a questionnaire design
to elicit responses on the items in questions. The researchers used the four
like scale of strongly agreed (SA), Agreed (A) Disagreed (D) and strongly
|Disagreed (SD). The respondents are required to tick against the column that
best describes their views in each item. The questionnaire will be distributed
to ten (10) students from each schools and five (5) teachers from each schools
and will also be collected through item. The researchers’ used mean to analyze
and interpret the data. Interpretation of the data was based on the following
scores interval:
SA –
Strongly Agreed – 4 points
A - Agreed - 3 points
D –
Disagreed - 2 points
SD- Strongly
Disagreed – 1 point
The output was determined by finding
the mean of each number.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
OF THE STUDY
Measuring of
academic performance of student is challenging since student performance is the
product of socio-economic, psychological and environmental factors. Education
ought to be growing as a profitable industrywith prime objective of maximizing
profit by delivering high quality education that produces well educated,
skilled mannered students according to needs and requirements of the
dynamically growing market. There are two groups of students as generally
perceived, that is those who improve and those who don’t improve. Students
performance is also affected by different factors such as learning abilities
because new paradigm about learning assumes that all students can and should
learn at higher levels but it should not be considered as constraint because
there are other factors like race, gender, sex that can affect students
performance Hansen (2000).
Mishae
(2001) explained the effect of age, qualification and distance from learning.
Place on the students performance in his explanation concerns the readiness in
doing a particular discipline in the school; for instance, a student that is
not capable of doing sciences in the secondary school joins sciences because
his/her friends are offering the
subjects.Winston et al
(2002) added that the academic performance of student is also
coined in the students impatience (this time discount behavior). Yuonne (1998) further elaborated that
students academic performance is very much dependent on SEB (socio-economic
background) as per his statement, secondary school students performance is with
statically significant differences. Alexander (2001) explained that some of the
practice adopted by secondary school administration can also influence their
academic performance, such practices like organized study group, debate club,
media and culture clubs etc.
According to
Bello Lawel, an Abuja based educationist a member of the All Nigeria committee
of Principals of secondary school (ANCOPSS). The truth is that the reading
culture in Nigeria is generally poor. To make it worse, these days, mot of our
students hardly read. Instead they waste their precious time watching
televisions or films, listening to music, playing to music, playing
video/computer games.
Another educationist Mohammed (2009)
attributed the dismal performance on the external examinations to the
lackadaisical attitude of the government and its refusal to adequately fund the
education sector. According to him, on several occasions we clamored for
improved budgeting allocation to the education sector but all these have fallen
on deaf ears. For instance, UNESCO recommends that 26 percent of any country’s
budget should be allocated to the education sector but instead what do we have
in Nigeria.
Government paying lip service to the
education sector. Other countries who understand the importance of education
have taken proactive steps to adequately fund their education sector. For
instance, Ghana has allocated 29 percent to its budget education sector, even
far more than the UNESCO recommendation. The same thing with countries like
South Africa and Botswana who allocated 35 and 37 percent respectively to the
education sector. So until these things are implemented we would continue to
morty age the future of our children.
Statement of
the problem
Secondary school students
performances in external examinations has been a nagging issues in Nigeria
generally and particularly in Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State.
Language is a medium of institution.
For teaching and learning to take place effectively, there must be adequate
communication between the learner and the teacher. In Nigeria, English language
is a “Lingua Franka”. Except in vernacular, it is used in communicating the
learner in all Nigeria schools. The importance of English language can hardly
be overemphasized. That is why it appears almost everyday in the school time
table.
Unfortunately,
a cursory look at the performance of students in English language in particular
computer and integrated science in external examination in Eungu North Local
Government Area is nothing to write home about. Since computer and integrated
science are relatively new in development of science and technology, the
researchers would want to find out why there is an always recorded low
performance in English language, computer science and integrated science from
2003 -2007 on case study.
Secondly, what facilities are
available in teaching and learning of the three subjects in Junior secondary
school certificate examination in Enugu Local Government Area.
Purpose of
the study
Based on the background and the
problem of this study, the main purpose underlying the project is to compare
the academic performances of the junior secondary school students in English
language, computer science and integrated science in external Examinations from
2003-2007. (A case study of Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State)
specifically, the purpose of the study tends to find out:
1. Why there is poor performance of students
in external examinations
2. How students perform in external
examinations
3. How students perform in English Language,
Computer Science and Integrated Science in External Examination and when
compared, which one among the listed did perform better than others.
Significance
of the study
The usefulness
of the research work in educational system cannot be over emphasized if the
result of the study is properly utilized. It is going to be a benefit to the
students, teachers, parents and government. This would help to provide some
information for curriculum designers and classroom teachers in order to utilize
relevant approaches to enhance meaningful learning and teaching of English
language, Integrated Science and computer science students. Thus, the knowledge
of students’ cognitive style and attitude would be very useful in both academic
and career enhancement.
Scope of the
study
The study
was based on the junior secondary school students performance in external
examinations in English Language, Integrated Science and Computer science in
Enugu North Local Government Area, Enugu State. This specifically covers the
following junior secondary schools;
1. New Layout Secondary school
2. Days Secondary School Independent Layout
3. Government secondary school Enugu
4. Coal Camp Secondary School, Enugu
The schools
mentioned above are used in this research work for better coverage and easy
assessment.
Research
questions
The following research questions were
formulated to guide the study. These questions are:-
1. What are the causes of poor performance of
students in external examinations?
2. In what ways can the performance of
students in external examination be improved?
3. How does students perform in external
examination in English language, Computer science and Integrated science and
which of the three subjects did they perform better on?
Limitation
of the study
For a proper project research to be
carried out effectively, there should be some limitations along the line, these
limitations includes:
Time
Constraint: This is the time consumed by students carryout a particular project
research topic.
First and
foremost, for a student achieve his or her goals on a project research, there
should be an effective plans on how the materials needed can be gotten.
And this
will be actualize by proper research which might involve moving from one place
to another in search of these materials. By so doing time is consumed.
On the other hand, some students in a
particular group may be giving excuses that the time fixed is not suitable for
them, some may complain that they usually do their domestic work for their
parent during the project research exercise, which may demand all attentions.
In order to balance the equation they
should be proper plans on time management.
Money: This
involves that money needed for the project to be carried out in a situation
whereby the money needed becomes high, some students in a group will be affect
and this may hinder their chances of participating and finally terminates their
work since nothing good comes easy without money.
Difficulty
Experiences: This is the experience we encounter from our group. Since every
body has his/her own personal character couple with individual schedule for
daily activity, thing can never be done at the same time. Therefore, the time
schedule for a particular group to carryout their project research varies.
Insincerity of responding to questionnaire items: this is the inability
of the supervisor did not explain properly the most essential things needed and
how he wants the project to be done. The project writer may find it difficult
to cope.
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