DETERMINANTS OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN BASIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN MKPAT ENIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

The study was to investigate the determinants of academic performance of junior secondary school students in Basic Science and Technology in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The study was guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of this study consisted of all the junior secondary schools two (JSS2) students in the 16 public secondary schools in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area. A sample size of 97 students was selected from two public secondary schools in the study area for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used for the selection. The instrument used for the study was Determinants of Academic Performance of Students Questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to face and content validity. A reliability coefficient of 0.82 was obtained for the instrument using test-retest method. Mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions while independent t-test was used for testing the hypotheses. The findings of this study showed that there is no significance difference on the determinants of academic performance of male and female junior students in Basic Science and Technology in Mkpat Enin Local Government Area, there is no significance difference on teacher quality and academic performance of junior secondary school students in Basic Science and Technology and there is no significance difference on study habits and academic performance of junior secondary school students in Basic Science and Technology. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that Students should take advantage of their learning strengths to take risk in learning for independent discovery and Teachers should provide instruction and guidance on constructive approach to improve performance of students in Basic Science and Technology concept.