PEER PRESSURE, TIME MANAGEMENT, SELF EFFICACY ON STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS IN OYO METROPOLIS, OYO STATE, NIGERIA ELECTION

Abstract

This study investigates the influence of peer pressure, time management, and self-efficacy on students’ achievement in mathematics in Oyo Metropolis of Oyo state, Nigeria. The study adopts a descriptive survey. A simple random sampling technique was used to select four hundred (400) senior secondary school II students in sixteen (16) secondary schools in the metropolis consisting of four local governments: Afijio, Atiba, Oyo East, and Oyo West Local Government Areas. Three (3) validated instruments were used for the study. Data analysis was done using frequency count, Percentage, Standard Deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The result shows that there is a negative, weak non-significant relationship between peer pressure and students’ achievement in mathematics; there is a positive, weak significant relationship between time management and students’ achievement in mathematics. Also, there is a significant positive relationship between self-efficiency and students’ achievement in mathematics. The finding also reveals that the composite contribution of peer pressure, time management, and self-efficacy to the predictor of students’ achievement in mathematics is significant. The relative contribution of peer pressure to students’ achievement in mathematics is not significant but the relative contribution of time management and self-efficacy to students achievement in mathematics is significant. The data shows that the variables that predict students’ achievement in mathematics are time management and self-efficacy. Based on the result, it was recommended that Mathematics teachers should find ways of enhancing Mathematics Self-Efficacy in student’ and emphasize students’ confidence to succeed in the subject.