Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Performance

There are numerous factors that greatly affect the academic performance of secondary school student, there include parental background (e.g. Level of education, socio-economic status, parental occupation and other social factors.

1.1.        Parental Background

Parents have been the major person involved in raising children in every society. That is why the home is recognized as a important agent of socialization

Adekeyi (2002) observes that it is mainly through their efforts and abilities that children are socialized to become productive citizen

THE COST OF POOR COMMUNICATION

THE COST OF POOR COMMUNICATION

What happens to bosses who don’t learn to communicate well? Their employees do not trust what they say and seek information elsewhere.Only about half of the people surveyed said that they learn what’s going on with the boss by listening to what he or she says. The rest “watch” body language, listen to tone of voice, or go so far as to ask somebody else in the organization.

   What makes an authentic leader? The survey asked two open-ended questions. Bates Communications categorized the respondents’ answers into ten key dimensions of leadership. The number one quality that authentic leaders conveyed was honesty/integrity. Since these were openended responses, we treated them as qualitative data, but each of the dimensions was mentioned by dozens of respondents. Integrity in some form was mentioned by well over half.

     Here is the leadership value system articulated by the survey’s 293 respondents, in roughly descending order:

     Honesty/Integrity. 

People who mentioned integrity referred to both business dealings and personal interactions. The words used to frame this concept were honesty, integrity, ethics, fairness, candor, sincerity, trustworthiness, and truthfulness—qualities that bosses must communicate through what they say and do.