PARENTAL EXPECTATION, SELF-EFFICACY AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN ADELEKE UNIVERSITY

This Project focused on the Parental Expectation and Self-Efficacy in the Academic Performance of Health Information Management Students at Adeleke University, Ede, Osun state. The specific objectives were to: assess student’s perception of self-efficacy, examine the effects of parental expectations and self-efficacy on students’ academic performance and determine the barriers to parental expectations and self- efficacy on Health Information Management Students at Adeleke University, Ede, Osun state. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study. A simple random sampling technique was used to select two hundred (207) respondents. A total of two hundred (207) questionnaires were distributed and One hundred and ninety-five (195) were retrieved, giving a response rate of 94.2%. Data analysis was done by means of descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentages, mean, and standard deviation with the use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Findings of the study revealed that majority (72.8%) of the respondents strongly agreed that lack of confidence affects students’ self-efficacy in their studies while84.1% agreed that motivations received from others help self-efficacy. Many(72.8%) of the respondents strongly agreed that parental expectations and self-efficacy are positively associated with children’s high academic performance. Finally, most(92.3%) of the respondents strongly agreed that mismanagement of time and lack of transportation and financial resources (92.3%)are barriers to parental expectation and self-efficacy on students’ academic performance It was concluded that parental expectation and self-efficacy are integral part of students’ academic performance. Low self-efficacy affects the students’ academic performance and students with high self-efficacy have excellent academic performance. It was recommended that School management should organize seminars and workshops for parents on how to maintain their expectation without affecting the students negatively and they build high self-efficacy in their children by allowing them to set goals, plan, and try different paths to achieve their goals.