INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL OCCUPATION AND EDUCATIONAL LEVEL ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ANAMBRA STATE
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The study examined the influence of parental occupation and educational level on the academic achievement of Senior Secondary Two (SS2) students in English language and Mathematics in Ogidi and Otuocha Education Zones of Anambra State, Nigeria. The population of the study consisted of 16,886 students in public secondary schools in Anambra State. Ten (10) out of 51 senior secondary schools in the two Zones were randomly selected. Eight hundred SS2 students of senior secondary schools were selected by multi-stage sampling technique from the ten (10) public senior secondary schools in the two Education Zones in the State. Three research questions and three null hypotheses guided the study. Ex Post facto design was adopted for the study. Data were collected using document analysis (school records) for SS2 third term results in English language and Mathematics. Parental occupation and educational level were collected from students’ records. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and t-test was used for hypotheses 1 and 2 while Two-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to analyse hypothesis three. The result revealed that parental occupation and education influenced academic achievement of SS2 students in English language and mathematics. Some recommendations were made thus: Governments and private companies should provide employment opportunities to give the parents better- paid jobs. Governments and non-government organisations should improve on giving people loan with little or no interest to help them become self-employed.
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