Effect of Home Environment on Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Abuja Municipal Area Council

Abstract

The study sought to find out Effect of Home Environment on 
Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Abuja Municipal 
Area Council (AMAC). The descriptive survey design was adopted for 
the study. The population of the study comprised of all the secondary 
schools in the study area. A total number of 200 respondents were 
sampled. The main research instrument of this study was a structured 
questionnaire titled: Impact of Home Environment on Effective 
Students’ Academic Achievement Questionnaire (EHESSSAPQ) and 
was divided into two sections. The instrument was validated by three 
experts. To establish the reliability of the instrument, two sets of 
responses were analyzed using the Pearson Product Moment 
Correlation Analysis (PPMC) with which the correlation was 
determined. A correlation of 0.71 was found reliable which was 
enough.Two research questions and research hypotheses were raised 
and answered descriptively using frequency counts and simple 
percentage, while the hypotheses were tested inferentially using t-test 
statistics. The result of the findings revealed that; broken home and 
parental socio-economic backgrounds have effect on students’ 
academic achievement and the two null hypotheses were rejected. 
Based on findings and conclusion, the following recommendations among others were made; parents should do everything possible to 
avoid cases of divorce that could lead to broken home, as it affects 
effective academic achievements of students from such homes 
employment opportunities should be created for the unemployed 
parents, parents should be encouraged to improve their educational 
standard by engaging in continuous programme.