Impact of Marital Status and Family Size on Academic Achievement of Students of Umar Suleiman College of Education Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the impact of marital status and family size on academic achievement of NCE students of Umar Suleiman College of education Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria. Two objectives were stated for this study, to examine the .impact of marital status on the academic achievement of students of Umar Suleiman Colleges of Education Gashua, Yobe State. To examine the impact of family size on academic achievement of students of Umar Suleiman Colleges of Education Gashua, Yobe State. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted ex-post facto research design. The study population was one thousand seven hundred and fifty sixty (1,756) students, comprising different categories of students; married and unmarried, males and females from different family size was respectively. The sample size was306and that was drawn from the table provided by research advisors (2006). Questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection and the instrument was named; marital status on academic achievement and family size on academic achievement questionnaire (MASFASAA-Q). The instrument has two (2) sections. Section A and B. Section A consists of items designed to seek background information on respondents like; gender, age, and level while second section B, consists of twenty (20) items on; marital status and family size of students and academic achievement respectively. The items in the questionnaire were based on 5-pointLikert scale. The study findings revealed that married and single students differ in academic achievement as married students achieved higher than their singles counterparts. The study recommendations were offered both for practice and for further studies.