Asu Ugama Anoke
Department of History
Ebonyi State College of Education, Ikwo.
Ebonyi state, Nigeria.
Abstract.
The study focus on the influence of school factors on the academic performance of upper basic school students on social studies in Abakaliki education zone of Ebonyi state. Five research questions and five null hypotheses where formulated to guide the study a comprehensive related literature were reviewed. The design of the study was a descriptive survey research design aimed at eliciting information from the respondent based on the research question that guided the study. The population of the study comprises all the 71 social studies teachers in public junior secondary schools in Abakaliki education zone. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire titled teachers questionnaire on school factors. The instrument was validated by 3 experts, one from science education department and two from arts and social science education department all in Ebonyi state university Abakaliki. Data collected where analyzed using frequency tables, mean and standard deviation while t-test of statistics was used in testing the five null hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that school factors such as curricular factor, administrative factor, physical factor, social and personnel factor influence students’ academic performance in upper basic school in Abakaliki education zone in Ebonyi state. Following the findings, the study recommends the following: workshops, and seminars for government, school administrators and teachers of social studies, provision of school factors by government and the society at large and maintenance and monitoring of school factors to ensure its effective use.
Keywords: school factor, academic performance, social studies.
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