SCHOOLING EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE
Taiwo Ebenezer Adeleke
Department of Educational Management
University of Ibadan, Ibadan
Email: adeleketaiwo97@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This study investigated Schooling experience and Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students in Lagos State. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. The population consisted of senior secondary schools students in Lagos state, 600 students were randomly sampled from senior secondary schools in Lagos state. Two research questions were raised and one hypothesis was formulated and tested. The self-structured questionnaire Schooling Experience questionnaire (SEQ) and achievement test on English and mathematics was used to elicit data from the respondents. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages were used to analyze the demographic variables and research questions while inferential statistics of Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistical tools was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Statistically the null hypotheses tested was rejected, hence the independent variables have significant influence on senior secondary school students academic achievement. The result revealed that the academic achievement of senior secondary school students in Lagos State is on averagely moderate, though their achievement in English Studies was poor but the achievement in Mathematics was high also there is a moderate significant relationship between schooling experience and senior secondary school student academic achievement (r =.365, p<0.05). Base on the findings, the study recommended that Schooling experience of the senior secondary school student in term of punctuality and attendance should be improved so as to have a very high academic achievement, the stockholders should ensure that students are punctual to school so as to increase the level of student academic performance in Lagos state.
Keywords: Home factor, Schooling and students academic achievement.
