Comparative Study of Students’ Academic Achievement in Social Studies in Public and Private Junior Secondary Schools in Kano State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
The study examined the academic achievement of students in social studies in public and private junior secondary schools in Kano state.
The study was carried out with objectives to; compare the academic achievement of students in social studies in public and private junior secondary schools in Kano state;
Compare the academic achievement of male and female students in social studies in public junior secondary schools in Kano state and compare the academic achievement of male and female students in social studies in private junior secondary schools in Kano state. The relevant literature was reviewed in chapter two of the research.
The study adopted expo facto research design and the total of seven hundred and ninety eight (798) students, which comprises five hundred and one from public JSS and two hundred and ninety seven from private JSS were sampled for the study from the total population of 79897.
Data which was the BECE results was collected from the sampled schools through the assistance of principals and examination officers.
The data collected for the study were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, frequency count and simple percentages were used to answer research questions while research hypotheses were tested using chi-square at 0.05 level of significance, after testing hypotheses two were rejected and retained one.
Findings among other showed that there was a significant difference in the academic achievement of students in social studies in public and private junior secondary schools in Kano state.
INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background to the Study
The Federal Government of Nigeria in recognition of the importance of education in the overall development of the nation, adopted education as an instrument for national development and fostering the worthwhile development of the individual.
Education therefore, aims at the inculcation of national consciousness and national unity; inculcation of the right types of values and attitudes for the survival of the individual and the Nigerian society;
the training of mind in understanding the world around and the acquisition of appropriate skill. (National Policy on Education 2014).
However, basic education (primary education and junior secondary education) has been acknowledged as the foundation on which the whole bulk of what is learnt through formal education stands.
As posited by Onoh and Obodo (2001), a child who acquires a very sound basic education is likely to remain literate, numerate and morally upright, even if the opportunity for him or her to go beyond that level is elusive.
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