The Relationship Between Students’ Achievement in Junior Secondary Physical and Health Education and Senior Secondary Physical Education

Lawrence Achimugu

doi:10.11648/j.tecs.20170204.12

Abstract

This study examines the extent to which scores obtained by students at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Physical and health education (PHE) conducted by Kogi State ministry of education predict the scores obtained by the same students at the senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Physical education (PE) conducted by National Examination Council (NECO) in Lokoja metropolis, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post - facto research design. One research question as well as one hypothesis guided the study. The sample size was 450 students who participated in 2013 BECE and 2016 SSCE from five senior secondary schools selected by simple random sampling technique from the total population of 32 senior secondary schools in Lokoja metropolis. The instrument used for data collection was proformatitled students’ achievement records in BECE and SSCE (SARBS). The data was analysed using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient to answer research question and t – test of significant of relationship to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that there was no significant relationship between scores obtained by students in physical and health education at the BECE and scores obtained by the same students in physical education at the SSCE. It was recommended among others that more physical education topics should be included in PHE curriculum and PHE teachers should be given adequate training.

Highlights

The main purpose of this study is to ascertain the extent to which scores obtained by students at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Physical and Health Education (PHE) conducted by Kogi State Ministry of Education predict the scores obtained by the same students at the senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Physical Education (PE) conducted by National Examination Council (NECO)
Research Question What is the relationship between scores obtained by students in physical and health education (PHE) at basic education certificate examination (BECE) and the scores obtained by the same students in physical education (PE) at the SSCE?
There is a very low correlation between the scores of the students in Physical and Health Education in BECE and their scores in Physical Education in SSCE. This means that students who passed Kogi State ministry of education (KSMOE)-BECE in PHE have very low probability of passing PE in NECO-SSCE and vice visa

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Introduction

In response to attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the critical targets of the national economic empowerment and development strategies (NEEDS), the Federal Government of Nigeria, came out with the need to review and restructure the existing curricular of primary and secondary schools to fit into 9-year basic education programme and post-basic education. I.e 3 years in primary; 3 years in middle primary and 3 years in junior secondary schools. BECE is conducted by each state of the federation, including Federal Capital Territory, Abuja through their respective ministries of education for public and private secondary schools. The National Examination Council (NECO) conduct the BECE for all the federal government colleges (unity schools) and any other interested secondary schools. The study is focused on BECE conducted by Kogi State ministry of education (KSMOE).

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