COMPARISON OF BOARDING AND DAY SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN CHEMISTRY IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ODEDA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OGUN STATE

ABSTRACT This study comparatively examined the Comparison of Boarding and Day Senior Secondary School Students performance in Chemistry in some selected secondary schools in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State. The method of sample selection adopted was by random sampling technique from all the boarding and day secondary schools in some selected secondary schools in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State. The instrument used to collect data for the study were analysed. using simple percentage statistical tools for the data analysis, which include the following: simple percentages and mean Percentile, the first one is to obtain mean score and frequency distribution tables showing the Extent of the degree to measure students performance. It was found that the performance of students in the Day Senior Secondary Schools in some selected secondary schools in Odeda Local Government area of Ogun State with particular reference to Chemistry was low compared to that of Boarding schools. The study revealed that there was a significant difference between boarding students and day students. The lowlevel performance could be attributed to congestion of students in classes, inadequate inspection by the relevant authorities, inadequacy of facilities and automatic promotion. The following recommendations was given by the researcher. The state government and officials of Ministry of Education should organize regular special sensitization programmes such as seminars, workshops, conferences and in-service training for Senior Secondary School teachers to improve their competence in Chemistry for better students' performance and to update their knowledge on the new development in other areas of specialization, the Ministry of Education in the State should also intensify more efforts in conducting regular and adequate short visits and routine inspection to schools in a bid to monitor activities of students in classes to improve the performances of students and finally, relevant authorities should device means of getting the day schools students more involve in academic activities while at home.