Parental Support as Correlate of Scholastic Adjustment Among Public Secondary School Students in Rivers State, Nigeria (Published)
The study investigated parental support as correlates of scholastic adjustment among public senior secondary school students in Rivers State. The correlational research design was adopted, guided by three research questions and three hypotheses. The population of the study consisted of 948,406 students in the 2024/2025 academic session. The sample size of the study was 495 students. One researcher developed instrument titled: “Parental Support and Scholastic Adjustment Scale” (PSSAS) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by research experts, while reliability was determined through the test re-test method, yielding a coefficient of .75 and .72 respectively. Data analysis employed Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation using SPSS. The result of the study revealed that: parental encouragement had significant high positive relationship with scholastic adjustment. Parental warmth had significant moderate positive relationships, while parental assistance with homework had low positive relationship. The researcher made some recommendations, among which was that: parents should strive to improve on the warmth they offer their children via increased affection, love and nurturance for enhanced scholastic adjustment.
Keywords: Rivers State, parental support, scholastic adjustment, secondary school students
Attitudes of Secondary School Students in Saudi Arabia towards Science (Published)
This study aims to investigate secondary school students’ attitudes in Saudi Arabia towards science. Questionnaire of 24 items was developed considering a variety of attitudes toward science instruments, and then administrated to a sample of 150 secondary school students (78 males & 72 females). The findings indicated that secondary school students in Saudi Arabia have positive attitudes towards science. At the meantime, the results showed that there was no significant difference in attitudes towards science between males and females. These findings are discussed in the context of science teaching and research. In addition, the results suggest that further research is required to explore how Saudi students’ positive attitudes towards science can be used to improve their performance in science.
Keywords: Attitudes towards Science, secondary school students