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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 17 2025 | None
The Impact of Home and School Environment on the Academic Performance of Students in Secondary Schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State
Margaret Olanireti AYODELE
Pages: 135-153
Abstract
The study investigated the impact of Home and School Environment on the academic performance of students in secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The research design that was used in this study is the descriptive survey method. The researcher carried out the study by involving Government students in some selected secondary schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The study was conducted in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The population of this study consists of all the public secondary school Students in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State. A simple random sampling was used to select twenty (20) students from five selected secondary schools from the study area, making a total of one hundred (100) respondents the study. A well-structured (IHSE) questionnaire was used to collect information from the respondents. The instrument for the study was subjected to reliability and validity mechanism. The degree of reliability of the instrument was r = 0.86, this shows that the test is highly correlative. The instruments was administered to the students on the day approved by the school authorities for the exercise. The researcher was assisted by trained research assistants in the administration and collection of the instruments. The statistical analysis of chi-square (X2) was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of` significance. Based on the results obtained, appropriate conclusions and recommendations were made.
Keywords
Home, School, School Environment, academic performance, secondary schools, Ikere Local Government Area
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