PREDICTIVE VALUE OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO THE SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE
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PREDICTIVE
VALUE OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IN RELATION TO THE SENIOR
SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Background of the Study
In this research study, the
researcher has the interest of ascertaining whether the junior secondary school
certificate examination results would act as the predictors of students’
performance at the senior secondary school certificate examinations in Nigeria.
The interest of the researcher in proposing to undertake a research of this
nature was brought about with the fact that it is common knowledge that
performance in SSCE has been low for quite a long time (WAEC 1994 and 1995),
despite the fact that these students obtained acceptable grades in JSCE, and
were constantly admitted to SSI. This torches the validity (Popham, 2002) of
the JSCE as an adequate benchmark to check student’s capacity to cope effectively
with SSS work.
However, at any given stage of
students’ education, information is required about their capabilities and
readiness for employment and for further studies in the next stage of
education. This information is normally got from the assessment of students’
academic performance in the various subjects studied as reflected in their
examination results. This provides the opportunity for correct decision making,
such as certification and placement of students, and for the prediction of their
future performance at a higher level. Hence, academic performance’ has been
described as the scholastic standing of a student at a given moment. It refers
to how an individual is able to demonstrate his or her intellectual abilities.
This scholastic standing could be explained as the grades obtained in a course
or groups of courses taken. Thus, in
predicting academic performance, Daniels and Schouten (1970) emphasized the use
of grades in examinations and reported that grades could serve as prediction measures
and as criterion measures. They argued that a prediction of a future
examination result could be made with reasonable success on the basis of the
results of a previous examination. Findings made by Al-Shorayye (1995) and
Adeyemi (1998) led credence to this point. The findings supported the findings
of other researchers that the General Certificate Examination (GCE) and
Secondary School Certificate examination (SSCE) results provided the best
predictor of university performance. Findings made by Peers and Johnston (1994)
confirmed the validity of the number and grades of passes in the Scottish
Certificate of Education in predicting first year and final year university
performance. Gay (1996) also reported that high school grades could be used to
predict college grades. A research by
Klomegah (2007) to investigate the extent to which index scores of students’
self-efficacy, self-set goals, assigned goals and ability could predict
performances of university students and which was the best predictor of academic
performance. The results of the study which was carried out in North Carolina,
U.S.A., showed that self-efficacy had the strongest predictive power and high
school GPA was a better predictor of students’ academic performance than
goal-efficacy model. From another study on predicting senior secondary school
certificate examination results from performance in the junior secondary school
certificate examinations in Ondo State, Nigeria, Adeyemi (2006) found the
junior secondary school certificate examination results as a good predictor of
performance at the senior secondary certificate examinations.
Historically, the introduction of
6-3-3-4 system of education in Nigeria in 1982 came with the use of internal
and external assessments of students which are combined for the certification
and prediction of the future performance of students. The first stage of the
6-3-3-4 system stipulates the first three years of education of a child after
the 6 year primary school education. This first three years of education of the
child is known as the Junior Secondary School (JSS) level of education, while
the last three years is the Senior Secondary School (SSS) level.
To attain
the JSS certificate, continuous assessment and the final examination for the junior
secondary school level are combined for the certification of the JSS level. The
last three years, which is the Senior Secondary School level, is the end of the
secondary education of the student. The senior secondary school certificate
also is made up of the continuous assessment and the final examination of the
student which conducted by either “National Examination Council” (NECO) or the
West African Examination Council (WAEC).
However,
researchers in Nigeria have had divergent findings on the predictive validity
of some examinations. In other developing countries, the index of academic
performance varied from one country to another. Othuon and Kishor (1994) found
that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education scores had a moderate positive
linear relationship with the Certificate of Secondary Education grades. In some
other States, performance in JSCE has been found to be significantly related to
the performance in SSCE. However, some researchers have found no significant
relationship between the performance in JSC examinations and performance in SSC
examinations.
Against this
divergent views and findings of previous researchers on the predictive validity
of the JSC examinations, this study intended to examine student’s performance
in JSC examinations to determine whether or not it could effectively predict
students’ performance in SSCE examinations in Nigeria, with particular focus on
some selected junior and senior secondary schools in Apapa Local Government
area of Lagos metropolis.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The
performance of secondary schools' students in Nigeria has been a subject of
controversy. Some schools of thought were of the view that the performance was
improving (Ige, 2001; Afolabi and Adewolu, 1998). Other schools of thought
argued that the performance level was dwindling terribly (Onipede, 2003). The
problem of this study, therefore, was to determine whether or not any
significance differences exist between the performance level of secondary
schools' students in junior and senior secondary certificate examination in
Nigeria?
1.3
Research Questions
The
following research questions were raised to address the problem of this study:-
· Is there any significant relationship
between the overall performance of students in the JSCE and their performance
in the SSCE?
· To what extent can Junior Secondary
School overall performance be a predictor for the future performance of
students at the senior secondary school examination?
· What is the nature and strength of the
relationship between selected JSCE subjects and their corresponding performance
in SSCE result?
1.4 Research Objectives
The general
purpose of this research study was to assess predictive value of the junior
secondary school performance in relation to the senior secondary school
examination performance. Specifically, this research intends to achieve the
following objectives:
· To find out whether there is a
significant relationship between the overall performance of students in the
JSCE and their performance in the SSCE.
· To determine whether the Junior
Secondary School overall performance be a predictor for the future performance
of students at the senior secondary school examination.
· To determine the nature and strength of
the relationship between selected JSCE subjects and their corresponding
performance in SSCE result.
1.5 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
To attain
the objective of this study, the following null hypothesis was formulated.
Ho1: There
is no significant relationship between the overall performance of students at
the (JSCE) and their overall performance at the (SSCE).
Ho2: Junior Secondary School overall performance
will not be a predictor for the future performance of students at the senior
secondary school examination.
Ho3: There
is no significant effect of socio-economic status, parental education and
occupation on quality of students’ academic performance.
Ho4: There
is no significant effect of socio-economic status on student’s overall
performance in JSCE and SSCE examination.
Ho5: There
is no significant difference in quality of students’ performance in relation to
their gender.
Ho6: Teachers qualification has no positive effect
on student academic performance in JSCE and SSCE examinations.
1.6 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY
An important justification for this study
is that it will help establish the link between the performance in JSCE and the
overall performance in SSCE, showing the degree to which the former can
influence the latter among students in Nigeria. Apart from these, a study like
this will serve as a book of reference to students/scholars, researchers in indentifying
several factors that could cause students failure in their examination.
Furthermore, conclusion reached in this
research work will serve as a crystal guide to Government, policy makers,
Ministry of Education, curriculum designers and evaluation studies in Nigeria
to identify which elements of policy area( in terms of students performance)
require urgent modification or not.
This
research study is also justified on the ground that it will serve as a frontier
of knowledge to upcoming researchers who are willing to carry out similar
research work.
1.7 Scope of the Study
This
research study is not expected to span beyond investigating students
performance in JSCE and their corresponding performance in SSCE. However, Due
to the large population of schools in Lagos State, the researcher therefore
limit his scope to twelve(12) selected junior and senior public secondary
schools in Apapa Local Government area
of Lagos Metropolis.
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