Academic and Environmental Stress as Predictors of Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria (Published)
The study investigated Academic and Environmental Stress as Predictors of Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. The need for the study came as a result of increasing rate of poor academic achievement of secondary school students in the study area to which the researchers sought to find solutions. It was guided by two research questions and two corresponding null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. The research design used for the study was correlation survey design. The population of the study comprised the entire four hundred and sixty secondary school students identify from cumulative record folder of SSII students who have performed poor in English Language and Mathematics in the study area. The entire population of 460 students were used as sample. In this case, there was no sample. This is because the number can be managed. The instrument for data collection were three sets of questionnaire titled “Academic Stress Questionnaire (ASQ)”, “Environmental Stress Questionnaire (ESQ)”; and Academic Achievement Proforma (AAP)”. ASQ and ESQ were properly validated by experts in test development and the internal consistency reliability indices of the items estimated at 0.83 and 0.85 respectively using cronbach alpha method. The data collected were analyzed using coefficient of determination (R2) for research questions, while linear regression was used in testing the hypotheses at <0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that academic stress predicts positively academic achievement of secondary school students. Also, the study found out that environmental stress predicts positively academic achievement of students. The findings also revealed that there is a significant relationship between academic stress and academic achievement of SSII students in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that secondary school guidance counsellors should organize seminars on academic and environmental stress on academic achievement of students to help improve academic achievement of students.
Citation: Ncheke D.C., Enejedu E.E, Ogheneruemu I.R., Egenti N. (2023) Academic and Environmental Stress as Predictors of. Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in Nsukka Education Zone of Enugu State, Nigeria, International Journal of Education, Learning and Development, Vol. 11, No.1, pp.61-70
Keywords: Academic Stress, and academic achievement, environmental stress
Effect of Academic-Related Stress on Student Indiscipline in Secondary Schools In Eldoret East Sub-County, Kenya (Published)
Many factors contribute to student indiscipline in schools. Some of these factors emanate from the school environment. In light of this fact, the study was designed to establish the key school environment contributors and solutions to rowdiness among secondary school students in Eldoret East Sub-County. Based on the study, this paper discusses the findings on the effect of academic stress on indiscipline practices among secondary schools students in Eldoret East Sub-County. The study was led by Social Control Theory. Ex-post facto research design was used in the study. The target populace of the research included 3480 form three students and 54 deputy principals in public secondary schools in Eldoret East Sub County. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were adopted to pick a sample of 346 students to take part in the study. Census approach method was considered in which all the 54 deputy principals took part in the study. Questionnaires and interview schedule were used as data collection instruments. Data collected was analysed in both descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics was evaluated in form of frequencies, percentages, average and standard variation. Analysis of Variance was used to examine the hypotheses. The study also established that academic stress (F [47, 273] = 2.001, p = .000) had an effect on indiscipline’s cases among secondary school students. The study concluded that academic stress had an effect on indiscipline cases among secondary school students. The study, therefore, recommended that the schools should reduce academic stress by providing adequate time for relaxation to help reduce cases of indiscipline cases in secondary schools in Eldoret East Sub-County.
Keywords: Academic Stress, Effect, Eldoret East, Indiscipline, Kenya, Secondary Schools, Students