COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN BUSINESS STUDIES EXAMINATIONS IN URBAN AND RURAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDO SOUTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Keywords:
Business Studies, Academic Performance, Urban, Rural.Abstract
The study comparatively assessed students’ academic performance in business studies examinations in urban and rural secondary schools in Edo South Senatorial District. Three research questions were raised to guide the study and one null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance for the study. The ex-post facto survey research design was used for this study. The population of the study was 38,436 JSS 3 business studies students for three academic sessions in the seven local governments that made up the senatorial district. Random sampling technique was employed to select 18, 524 students from four (4) local governments in the senatorial district. Students Results in basic education certificate examination (BECE) for three academic sessions; namely 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 academic sessions from the Ministry of Education, Edo State was used for this study. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean, frequency counts and percentage. The t-test was used to test the hypothesis. The study revealed that over the course of the three academic sessions; urban students performed low in business studies examination while rural students performed high. The difference in the performance between urban and rural students was in favour of rural students. From the results of the analysis, it was concluded that students in rural located schools performed better than their counterparts in urban schools. There was a significant difference in the academic performance between rural and urban school located students. Consequently, it was recommended that enabling environment should be provided for teachers while attempting to increase students’ performance through provision of instructional materials.
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