Predictive Value of Attitude to School and Parental Expectation on Academic Performance among Federal Government Colleges in Sokoto State

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between attitude to school and parental expectation on academic performance of senior secondary school students in federal government colleges in Sokoto state. A correlational research design was adopted in this study. Stratified sampling procedure was used to obtain the sample of two hundred and thirty four (234) respondents from the three federal government colleges in Sokoto state. Attitude to school (ATS) and Parental Expectation Scale (PES) developed by Federal Ministry of Education was adopted to obtain data for the study. The Researcher Designed Test (RDT) in Mathematics and English Language were to obtain data for students’ academic performance. Three hypotheses were tested. The results obtained from hypothesis one showed that there is no significant relationship among the variables correlated, the second hypothesis tested shows that there is relationship between parental expectation and academic performance. While the third hypothesis showed that parental expectation significantly predicts student academic performance than attitude to school. Based on these findings, it was recommended that Parent should be made to provide detailed information about their wishes for their children and should be instructed to supervise their children so that whatever the teacher and counsellor informs their children to do at home is done properly and progress report brought to the counsellor about such behavioural problems