Abstract: This study examined Parent Motivation and Academic Achievement in Agricultural Science among Secondary School Students. The quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study. A questionnaire entitled was used for data collection. A sample size of 100 respondents was used. An independent t-test statistical method was used for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that academic achievement of students whose parent provide home lesson for them and students whose parents provide learning materials for them in their home performed academically better than those students whose parents do not provide learning materials for them in Agricultural science in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area.
It was therefore recommended that parents should motivate their children through adequate provision of home lesson and by provide learning materials for them, this will increase students’ interest in the learning of Agricultural science.
Parent Motivation and Academic Achievement in Agricultural Science among Secondary School Students
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the study
The training and development of a child naturally placed in the hand of the parents. This is harmonious with the common assertion of sociologists that education can be an instrument of cultural change whose foundation begins from home. It is not out of place to imagine that parental socio-economic background can have effect on the academic achievement of children in school as observed by many scholars.
Anything that affects the development of environment to children will possibly affect their education or disposition to education. When a woman’s nutritional status improves so does the nutrition of her young children student academic performance measurement has received consideration attention in previous researches.
It is the challenging aspects of academic literature, and science student’s performances are affected due to social, psychological, economic, environment and personal factors. These factors strongly influence the student’s performance but vary from individual to individual and country to country previous studies on student’s academic performance had been conducted on such issues as gender difference teachers education and teaching styles, class environment, socio-economic factors and family educational background. Educational services are often not tangible and difficult to measure because they result in the form of transformation of knowledge, life skills and behavior modification of learners.
The environment and the personal characteristics of learners play important roles in their academic success. The school personal, supports from members of the families and communities help determine the quality of academic performance and also this social assistance has crucial roles for the accomplishment of performance goals of student at school. Besides the social structure, parent’s motivation in their children’s education increases the rate of academic success of the children. More specifically this study aims at identifying and analyzing parental factors that affect the quality f student’s academic performance.
Parent Motivation and Academic Achievement in Agricultural Science among Secondary School Students
1.2 Statement of the problem
The major problem that attracted the attention of the researcher to this study is the poor parental motivation of the students in Agricultural science among secondary school in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area in recent time. Despite that some parent in some locality are peasant farmers and there are poor. This poverty state hinder them not to give proper attention to their children’s e.g. buying of books, textbook, etc and which will enable their performance in Agricultural science to be poor. The report from the ministry of education junior secondary school (JSS3) shows that student achievement has reduced drastically.
The society blames the poor achievement of student to survival factors which include, parent’s characteristic, parents personal contribution, parents interest n the child. Based on the academic malaise of students in Agricultural science many researchers have been carried out to investigate about the poor performance of student, but much has been due as it relates to parents motivation. In order to fill this gap, the study will be conducted to find out whether parental motivation can exert influence on academic achievement of students in Agricultural science among secondary school in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area.
