COMPARISON OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INTEGRATED SCIENCE IN EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS FROM 2003 TO 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 TO
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 industry with 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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