Assessment of Assimilation and Academic Performance of Students During Winter and Summer Seasons

Abubakar Muhammed Dadile ,Abubakar Muhammad Dadile,Habu Muhammed Dadile ,Nurudeen Mohammed

doi:10.33448/rsd-v9i12.8886

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Abstract

The study was conducted at Gashua, Yobe State. The weather condition of the area during summer is so terrible to the extent that the majority of inhabitants are searching for ice blocks or cold water to drink in other to feel a bit comfortable. In the school, both teachers and students were not comfortable during summer and winter seasons and these made teaching and learning processes boring. Therefore, the study is aimed at assessing the assimilation and academic performance of students during the vsummer and winter seasons. A random selection of past examination record sheets of students in Yusad secondary school, Gashua was used, and information on their academic performance for summer and winter season were obtain from senior secondary one and two (SS1 and SS2) classes. Ten student record books were selected at random for their academic performance on the subject area of biology. Their scores of the academic performance records were subjected to a descriptive statistics where mean, standard deviation was calculated and Z-test was determined. The results of this study revealed that the summer and winter seasons do not affect the assimilation and results reveals that the academic performance of students varies between - 0.58 in SS1 to - 0.72 in SS2 which means that the summer and winter seasons had no influence on the assimilation and performance of students but might cause inconvenience, unfavorable, disturbance and unsuitable conditions for teaching and learning processes.

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The study conducted at Yusat secondary school Gashua, to determine the influences of environmental factors on the assimilation and performance of the students in secondary school
The results of this study revealed that the summer and winter seasons do not affect the assimilation and results reveals that the academic performance of students varies between - 0.58 in SS1 to - 0.72 in SS2 which means that the summer and winter seasons had no influence on the assimilation and performance of students but might cause inconvenience, unfavorable, disturbance and unsuitable conditions for teaching and learning processes
Meant that there was no significant differences in the assimilation and academic performance of students during the summer and the winter seasons but might cause inconvenience, disturbance and unfavorable conditions in the teaching and learning processes and this is in line with the reports of Razmjou and Kjellberg (1992), that hot weather destabilized the attention of the students but not affecting their performance

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The study conducted at Yusat secondary school Gashua, to determine the influences of environmental factors (summer and winter seasons) on the assimilation and performance of the students in secondary school. One of the researchers reported that academic performance in a school subject is symbolized by a score or marks on the achievement test (Epunnam, 1999); while retention of learning according to Momoh-Olle (1999) is the repeated performance by a learner of the behavior earlier acquired, elicited after an interval of time. It is affected by the degree of original learning, the methods of learning and learners’ memory capacity among others (Demmert 2001). Studies have reported little if any loss under extreme temperature exposure (chiles et al, 1958, Pepler 1959, Colquhoun, 1969 and Grether et al, 1971) where as other studies have reported performance decrement (Mock 1947, Fraser et al, 1961, Pepler 1960)

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