English Language and Mathematics Senior Secondary School Two Unified Examination Results as Predictors of Senior School Certificate Physics Examination in Ondo State, Nigeria (Published)
This study investigated whether the performance of students in SSCE physics could be predicted from their grades in English and Mathematics at the senior secondary school two unified examination. (SSS 2E). Two research null hypotheses were generated to guide the study. The study employed descriptive research of expost-facto design. Five Secondary Schools were purposively selected from Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State, Nigeria. A total of 175 2021/2022 SSS3 Physics students that sat for English Language and Mathematics SS2 unified examination in 2020/2021 academic session were involved in the selected public secondary schools. Data collected were analysed using Pearson product moment correlation. The two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results analysis indicated that performance of students in Mathematics could be used to predict results of SSCE physics; it was however found that result in English Language alone had low predictive value for performance in physics. Based on the findings of the study, it was therefore recommended among others that credit pass in English Language should not be made mandatory for student seeking admission for science.
Keywords: Correlation, Performance, Predictive, expost facto, unified examination
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (PUTME) As Predictors of Undergraduate Students’ Final Grades (Published)
This study set out to investigate UTME and PUTME Examinations as predictors of undergraduate students’ final grades. The research design is the ex-post-facto. The population of this study comprises of 100 and 200level undergraduate students in four different departments. The sample for the analysis is 436 students. Data were collected from the official students’ records at the Management Information System (M.I.S) Unit of the University of Benin. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) and linear regression. The findings of the study revealed that JAMB/UTME, PUTME scores do not significantly predict undergraduate final grades in Nigeria University and both JAMB/UTME and PUME scores combined do not significantly predict undergraduate final grades in Nigeria University. The need for stakeholders in education to examine the relevance of the JAMB/UTME and PUTME examinations in the selection of students into the tertiary institution which has led to multiplicity of examination and other attendant problems for the students, parents and even the institutions; and the need for every tertiary institution to be allowed to conduct their screening examination and not a stooge of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board were recommended.
Keywords: : Academic Performance, Examination, Predictive, validity