Home Factors as Determinants of Students' Conduct in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria
Keywords:
Students’ Conduct, Academic Conduct, Moral Conduct, Home FactorAbstract
This study investigated home factors as determinants of students' conduct in
colleges of education in southwest, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research
design was used. The sample size for this study was 1254 and purposive
sampling technique was used to select 15 colleges of education and 200 level
Social Studies Students in Southwest, Nigeria. The research instrument used
was a self-structured questionnaire tagged “Home and School Factors on
Students’ Conduct Questionnaire (HSFSCQ)”, with reliability value of 0.82.
Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of simple frequency
count, percentages and mean value for the demographic data and research
questions. For the hypotheses, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC),
Multiple Regression, General Linear Modelling (GLM) of Multivariate and
Univariate were used and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result
revealed that the level of students’ compliance to both academic and moral
conduct was low (x = 2.177;x = 2.476) respectively. All home factors were
dominant in determining students’ ethical conduct except family size and
parental social status (x =2.431;x =2.352) respectively. Home factors had 240
influence on students’ conduct (F = 46.780, P < 0.01; F = 73.535, P < 0.01),
This study concluded that home factors influence on students' conduct;
including contribute to students’ moral and academic conduct, emphasizing
the need for a holistic approach to address conduct related issues in colleges
of education in Southwest, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended
that a stable connection should be developed between teachers and students
for good ethical behaviour, school authority should develop standard
disciplinary measures and safety regulations for students’ conduct and strong
collaborative platform between home and school should be created for
cooperative decision making and problem solving to ensure ethical students’
conduct.
