HOME ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY FOUR PUPILS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN YAKURR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA.
Abstract
The research design adopted for this study was the ex-post facto design. The area of study is Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, Nigeria. Three research questions were raised and transformed into research hypotheses which was tested at .05 level of significance. The population of the study consist of all teachers in public primary schools in the eighteen public primary schools in Yakurr LGA, Cross River State, Nigeria. The population comprised of both male and female with a total number of eight hundred and twenty (820) teachers during the 2019/2020 school year. The sampling technique adopted for this study was a simple random sampling technique. There were 18 number of primary schools in Yakurr LGA. The hat and draw method were used to sample Ten (10) schools and160 teachers that were used for the study. The sample of the study stood at 160 teachers, representing 20% of the total population of 820. The sample comprises 90 males and 70 females. The instrument used for data collection in the study was the questionnaire. The questionnaire is titled “Home Environmental Factors and Moral Development of Pupils Questionnaire (HEFMDPQ)”. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to obtain the reliability of the instruments. Data collected were analysed using Pearson moment correlation coefficient. The study found that there was a significant relationship between family size, family type, parents’ socio-economic status and moral development of primary school pupils in Yakurr LGA, Cross River State. Based on the findings, it was concluded that pupils’ behaviour would much more improved when the intervening home variables are positively harnessed to help pupils in their improve morally. It was recommended among other things that stake holders in primary education should take the moral deficit in public primary school seriously. There is an urgent need for the introduction of policies and programmes to help restore moral conducts among pupils in primary school
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