CHAPTER
THREE
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY
1.1.
Introduction
This chapter describes the design and
the procedure used in conducting this research work.
1.2.
Research
Design
The researcher adopted the survey
research design for the study. This is because it sought the respondent opinion
on the student’s academic performance in some secondary schools
1.3.
Population
of the Study
The population for this study consists
of male and female students and teaches form selected secondary schools in
Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.
1.4.
Sample
and Sampling Technique
The purposive sampling technique was
used to select the selected secondary schools while random sampling techniques
was employed to selected students and teachers from each of the selected
secondary school in the area of study and for easy analyses of data. Firstly,
the researcher randomly sampled five secondary school in
Sapele (public) and fifty-five teachers form the selected schools. Furthermore,
the researcher randomly sampled (20) students comprising both male and female
from each of the four (4) schools seventeen was given to the fifth school and fifty-five
questionnaire was given to 11(eleven) teachers each of the selected schools
giving a total sample size of one hundred and fifty-two respondents which were
used for the study. The total of eighty(80) males and seventy-two (72) female
for both students and teachers were used.
1.5.
Research
Instrument
The instrument used for data collection
was a self-constructed questionnaire titled “questionnaire on student parental
background on student academic performance (QSPBSAP).
The questionnaire was divided into two
sections, A and B section A sought information on personal data of the
respondents while section B was designed to elicit response from the
respondents determining if there is no difference in the perception of male and
female students and teachers in the five selected secondary schools about the
student academic performance. The instrument was structured on a likert
four-point scale, in which the respondents were requested to indicate their
opinion by choosing either strongly agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D) , and
strongly Disagree (SD) with assigned scores of 4, 3, 2 and 1 point(s)
respectively. There were twelve items in the questionnaire.
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