PARENTAL EDUCATIONAL STATUS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NSIT IBOM LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study
The notion that educated parents provide a better environment for their children has been the basis of many interventions. Parental education may be direct input into the production function that generates a higher quantity of other inputs through the effect of educational levels of household income.
A considerable literature (e.g., Behrman, 2019; Heckman &Masterov, 2014) has focused on the effects of parental background on such outcome for their children as cognitive skills, education health and subsequent income.
There is little doubt that economic status is positively correlated across generations. Parents and the family environment in general, have important impacts on behaviour and decisions taken by adolescents. There is also the belief that there is a strong link between parents’ social class and their children’s school performance. The differences could be traced to the type of occupation in which one is engaged which could also determine to a great extent, one’s income and ability to provide enough funds and optional facilities which a growing school child requires for high performance at school (Ololube 2015).
Parental Educational Status And Academic Performance Of Students In Secondary Schools
Davie (2010) argued that, working class homes are usually associated with overcrowding; and children from overcrowded homes are usually deprived of quietness, privacy and good healthy environment which often do not allow for a healthy living. They added that, such conditions exposes children of working class to different types of diseases and illness, which contribute to their irregular attendance at school, lack of concentration, tiredness and other weaknesses, all of which correlate negatively to school success.
Stressing the negative relationship between poverty and school achievement (Battin-Pearson and New-Comb 2011) confirms Davie opines by adding that, poverty and low socio-economic status directly increases the likelihood for general school failure and early high school dropout. According to Hawkins (2017), poverty is associated with risky health behaviour and must be taken care of when evaluating the effect of these behaviours and achievement.
This project is therefore going to examine and analyses the parental educational status and academic performance of students in secondary schools in Nsit Ibom L.A. G
Parental Educational Status And Academic Performance Of Students In Secondary Schools
Statement of the problem
Despite the zeal of parents to send their children to school, academic performance differ from one individual to another, for example, some children withdraw from school without completing their course work even at the primary level. This situation has attracted a lot of research work into the causes of differences in academic or school performance among school children. Literature has shown that factors like parental educational status, parental socio-economic status, the school itself and other factors could be held responsible for this.
Before we look at the part played by parental educational status in school achievement, which is the main concern of this study, the first thing that should strike our minds is the wrong conception that parental background is synonymous with home location, that is, whether urban or rural.
A study involving home background should not consider location only, but also the parental socio-economic status, parental support and encouragement, family size and position in the family. These factors operate severally and in different capacity to affect a child’s academic pursuit or school performance.
It is on this views this study aims at investigating the parental educational status and academic performance of students in secondary schools in Nsit Ibom L.A. G
