Reading Habit as Correlates of Students’ Academic Achievement in Chemistry in Secondary Schools in Ekiti State, Nigeria
Abstract
The study investigated reading habit as correlates of students’ academic performance in Chemistry in Secondary Schools in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The study adopts descriptive survey of research design. The population for this study consists of all students in Senior Secondary School I (SSS 1) offering Chemistry as a subject in all the public Secondary Schools in Ikere Local Government Area, Ekiti State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select twenty (25) Chemistry students each from each of the six (6) selected SSS class I in Ikere LGA of Ekiti State, Nigeria. A total of one hundred (150) SSS I Chemistry students were used as samples for the study. Two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The instrument for this study was self-designed questionnaire. The data collected were analysed using correlation statistical analysis package. The results of the analyses showed that there is significant relationship between the students’ reading habit and academic performance in Chemistry in secondary schools and it also revealed that there is no significant relationship between male and female students reading habit with respect to their academic performance in Chemistry in secondary schools.. Based on the findings of the study, conclusion and recommendations were made.
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