Comparative Analysis of Socio - Economic Factors and Student’s Academic Performance in Rural Versus Urban Areas in Nigeria: A Need for Recap
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This research studied the impact of socio-economic factors on students' academic performance in Nigeria using Ilorin-West (Urban) and Moro local government (Rural) areas of Kwara State. Overtime, the level of disparity in academic performance of these students has been an issue of major public concern. This was due to the large margin in performance in West African Examination council (WEAC) and scores obtained by students from the Joint Examination and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Therefore, the objective of this paper is to x-ray the impact of socio-economic factors on students’ academic performance in appraisal to those in rural and urban areas and also in private to public schools. The paper adopted the descriptive survey research design in which data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. Principal information was collected through the questionnaire while secondary data consist of internet, website, journals and published thesis etc. The total population for the study consists of 781 students from the selected schools while purposeful random sampling technique was employed as the sampling method and simple size of 260 was determine using the Kraje and Morgan table. However, the paper through a comprehensive analysis, found out that socio-economic factors such as parents or guardian income, parent’s/guardians’ occupation, parents/guardians’ level of education, and quality of school’s facilities significantly influences students' academic performance differently. Therefore, the paper recommends that government should provide a universal policy for both private and public schools including quality of teachers and teacher’s remunerations, and also government should build and equip more schools with modern learning facilities so has to improve easy and better access to education which will in long run have significant positive impacts on student academic performance among other recommendations.
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