EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA (PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS)
Abstract
Education is an instrument for national transformation, security, and development. It is a social responsibility of any government and the birthright of every citizen as a member of any country. Therefore any nation that toys with the education of her student indirectly invites disaster to her national development goals, transformation, positive changes, and innovation. At the forefront of this burning issue is the harsh reality of the transferred behaviours from school to society hence this study sought to investigate educational support services and students’ academic performance in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Four research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study was conducted in Enugu Education Zone using a descriptive survey research design with a sample of 240 students selected using a purposive random sampling method from a population of 12,848 students. The researcher structured questionnaire face validated by three experts from the field of Educational Psychology and Measurement and Evaluation respectively from Enugu State University of Science and Technology was used to elicit the desired response. The reliability coefficient was 0.73 determined using the test re-test coefficient. Method of data analysis were descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation used to answer research questions while a t-test was used to analyze the hypotheses. The result among others revealed that support services, as well as personnel in public secondary schools, are almost non-existing while available ones are not in the best condition. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government should make education its major priority by ensuring that necessary facilities and support services are adequately provided in public secondary schools for the effectiveness of the system.
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