Abstract
In all societies, the family is the premier institution for the socialization of children, adult intimate relationship, life-long economic support and occupation and continuity of relationship along the life course. Scholars had argued for and against the fact that there is a strong relationship between family characteristics and children educational success or otherwise. This present study investigate family characteristics as correlates of academic performance among school children in fishing settlements of Ogun state, Nigeria. A descriptive research design was adopted. The target population comprisedall JSS2 students in Ogun water side local government area of Ogun state. Three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The samples comprised of 400 respondents and 8 junior secondary schools. Multistage sampling techniques were adopted. A self-designed questionnaire was used to collect relevant data. Data generate were analyzed using frequency count, simple percentage, mean, standard deviation and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).Recommendations were made that there should be increase cooperation between the parents/ guardians and the school. Quality assurance unit of policy makers should ensure regular monitoring of school particularly in the area of teaching learning process.
Highlights
Academic attainment is an important parameter used in measuring students’ success or failure in a particular subject in schools
The present study examine family characteristics as correlates of academic performance among school children in fishing settlements in Ogun state, Nigeria
Whereas, when a child gets proper nutrition, good health, good care and appropriate stimulation during pre–school years and the ability to interact with and take optimal advantage of full complement of resources offered by any environment, effective learning takes place resulting in good academic performance. It is against this backdrop that the present study examined family characteristics as correlates of academic performance among school children in fishing settlements in Ogun State, Nigeria, focusing on family size, types and family support
Summary
Academic attainment is an important parameter used in measuring students’ success or failure in a particular subject in schools. For the purpose of the present study, the focus was on specific family characteristics such as size, family type and family support and their impact on students’ academic performance. In case of large family whether rich or poor, such large families are difficult to maintain and are characterized by a high number of children, rowdiness and these do not augur well for learning and school achievements. Large family engendered such problems as poor feeding, poor clothing, insufficient funds, lack of proper attention for children. Nuclear family consists of two parents and children. Children in nuclear families receive strength and stability from the two parents and generally have more opportunities due to financial ease of two parents [3]
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