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Gender and Peer Influence as Determinants of Junior Secondary School Students? Academic Performance in Basic Science in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State
Subject area: Science,Engineering and Technology · Area of research: Science
Abstract
There is dearth of conclusive research findings on gender and peer influence on students? academic performance in Basic Science. This paper thus investigated gender and peer influence on students? performance in Basic Science in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. Simple random and proportionate to size sampling techniques was used to select 300 Junior Secondary School Two (JSS2) students. Data was collected using a self-designed questionnairetitled? ?Gender, Peer Influence and Academic Performance in Basic Science Questionnaire (GPIAPBSQ, r = .835). Three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. T-test, Pearson product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyse the data collected. The findings revealed that gender has no significant influence on students? academic performance in Basic science. However, there was a significant but negative peer influence onstudents? academic performance in Basic science. Gender and peer influence had significant joint contribution to students? academic performance in Basic science. It was therefore recommended amongst others that parents, guardians and teachers should ensure that students have positive peer groups that can improve on their academic performance in Basic Science.
Keywords
Gender, Peer influence, Students? academic performance in Basic Science
How to cite this paper
@article{1709431,
author = {Olufemi Akinloye BOLAJI, Philias Olatunde YARA},
title = {Gender and Peer Influence as Determinants of Junior Secondary School Students? Academic Performance in Basic Science in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2025},
volume = {8},
number = {12},
pages = {1594-0},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1709431.pdf},
abstract = {There is dearth of conclusive research findings on gender and peer influence on students? academic performance in Basic Science. This paper thus investigated gender and peer influence on students? performance in Basic Science in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. Simple random and proportionate to size sampling techniques was used to select 300 Junior Secondary School Two (JSS2) students. Data was collected using a self-designed questionnairetitled? ?Gender, Peer Influence and Academic Performance in Basic Science Questionnaire (GPIAPBSQ, r = .835). Three null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. T-test, Pearson product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyse the data collected. The findings revealed that gender has no significant influence on students? academic performance in Basic science. However, there was a significant but negative peer influence onstudents? academic performance in Basic science. Gender and peer influence had significant joint contribution to students? academic performance in Basic science. It was therefore recommended amongst others that parents, guardians and teachers should ensure that students have positive peer groups that can improve on their academic performance in Basic Science.},
keywords = {Gender, Peer influence, Students? academic performance in Basic Science},
month = {June},
}