Home Factors as Determinants of Students' Conduct in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria

This study investigated home factors as determinants of students' conduct incolleges of education in southwest, Nigeria. The descriptive survey researchdesign was used. The sample size for this study was 1254 and purposivesampling technique was used to select 15 colleges of education and 200 levelSocial Studies Students in Southwest, Nigeria. The research instrument usedwas a self-structured questionnaire tagged “Home and School Factors onStudents’ Conduct Questionnaire (HSFSCQ)”, with reliability value of 0.82.Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of simple frequencycount, percentages and mean value for the demographic data and researchquestions. For the hypotheses, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC),Multiple Regression, General Linear Modelling (GLM) of Multivariate andUnivariate were used and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The resultrevealed that the level of students’ compliance to both academic and moralconduct was low (x = 2.177;x = 2.476) respectively. All home factors weredominant in determining students’ ethical conduct except family size andparental social status (x =2.431;x =2.352) respectively. Home factors had 240influence 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, emphasizingthe need for a holistic approach to address conduct related issues in collegesof education in Southwest, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommendedthat a stable connection should be developed between teachers and studentsfor good ethical behaviour, school authority should develop standarddisciplinary measures and safety regulations for students’ conduct and strongcollaborative platform between home and school should be created forcooperative decision making and problem solving to ensure ethical students’conduct.