This study was carried out mainly on the environmental factors that influence students’ choice of career in secondary school. Questionnaire was used to obtain data. The sample consisted of 100 students from four schools in Ijebu Ode local Government area of Ogun State. Data collected was analyzed using Pearson moment correlation co-efficient. This was used purposely to test the relationship tha...

The study was designed to examine the factors responsible for indiscipline among secondary school students and the need for stakeholders in education to find the solution to the problems of indiscipline in schools. Indiscipline behaviour appears to be endemic in schools in recent times, being manifested by students at all levels particularly among secondary school students. The social problem o...

The study sought to find out how family background of students in Anambra State, Nigeria influences their academic achievement in senior secondary school Biology. A survey design was adopted for the study. Five hundred and forty-six (546) Senior Secondary Two (SS2) biology students were drawn by simple random sampling from 14 schools within Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha Education Zones, in Anambra St...

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a national policy, advocacy, and research organization created to help middle and high school students receive an excellent education. The Alliance focuses on America's six million most at-risk secondary school students–those in the lowest achievement quartile–who are likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive futu...

It has been suggested that both performance and academic well-being play a role in adolescent students' educational attainment and school dropout. In this study, we therefore examined, first, what kinds of academic well-being (i.e., school burnout, schoolwork engagement, and mathematics self-concept) and mathematics performance profiles can be identified among lower secondary school students (N...

conclusions it is likely that learning social skills in adolescents with deafness would improve their sense of competence, and emotional well being. results the intervention led to significant improvement in total perceived competence scores of adolescents with deafness (p < 0.001) as well as in three domains of socio-emotional competence (p = 0.003), communication competence (p < 0.001), and s...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of smoking and investigate factors that may influence smoking behaviour in secondary school students in Nairobi. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey in which a self-administered questionnaire was issued to the students. SETTING Sampled public and private secondary schools in Nairobi. PARTICIPANTS All the students in the selected secondary schools were incl...

BACKGROUND Most smokers have their first experience of cigarette use when they are teenagers (i.e. at schools). Aiming tobacco control initiatives at secondary school students offers preventive measures to eliminate or reduce tobacco use initiation by students. This study assessed smoking-related attitudes, motives and behavior as well as other factors associated with smoking among male seconda...