Parents Socio-Economic Factors as it Affect Students Academic Performance in Selected Public Secondary Schools in Ado Local Government Area of Ekiti State

E F Fakunle,B K Ajayi

doi:10.32861/rje.68.144.148

Abstract

The study examined the influence of parent’s socio-economic status on the academic performance of students in selected public secondary schools in Ado Local government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study used stratified sampling techniques to select two hundred and five (205) students from five (5) public schools. Also, data on students’ academic performance was obtained from students results in four core subjects. Data obtained was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The study revealed that parents attitudes, parents socio-economic status, insufficient parental incomes, and lack of funding by the government are factors influencing students’ academic performance. Based on these findings, certain recommendations are made towards improving students’ academic performance, prominent of these include proper funding of education by government, sensitisation of parents towards their children education, increase in parental salaries in line with the current economic situation as well as the provision of adequate books and facilities in schools to breach the gap between the rich and the poor and the support of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) to eradicate poverty.

Highlights

Modality concerns the speaker's "attitude" toward the content of what he is saying, including obligation, necessity, permission, volition, intention, ability, possibility, certainty, etc
Epistemic adverbs vary in their total frequencies, they all tend to appear much more often in the written texts rather than in the spoken transcripts
This paper explored the usage of epistemic adverbs perhaps, probably, maybe and possibly in British National Corpus with Sketch Engine (SkE)

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Introduction

Modality concerns the speaker's "attitude" toward the content of what he is saying, including obligation, necessity, permission, volition, intention, ability, possibility, certainty, etc. Epistemic modality refers to possibility and necessity in the mental world as in the process of human reasoning, which can be expressed in verbs, adverbs, and other forms. I will examine the usage differences among epistemic adverbs perhaps, probably, maybe and possibly by using the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as data and the software Sketch Engine (SkE) as the analyzing tool. I will give an overview of related work by introducing corpus approaches to synonyms. The final section summarizes major findings and pedagogical implications of this study

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