Comparison of the Academic Performance of Students from Intact Homes and Broken Homes in Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines in Plateau State, Nigeria

Michael Adejare Adegboye; Esther Honotina Adegboye

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Comparison of the Academic Performance of Students from Intact Homes and Broken Homes in Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines in Plateau State, Nigeria

Michael Adejare Adegboye, Esther Honotina Adegboye

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College of agriculture and related disciplines have the mandate to train middle level manpower for agricultural sector making them appropriate for producing qualified extension agents. Academic performance, which has been confirmed by research to be determined among other factors by home status is the measure of the qualification in school training. Therefore, this study was designed to compare the academic performance of students from intact homes and broken homes in colleges of agriculture and related disciplines in Plateau state, Nigeria. It was discovered that 80.8% of the respondents were between the ages 18 and 26 years, both male and female were of equal percentage (50.0%) and 82.5% single. Also, 58.3% of the respondents were children from intact homes with 62.5% having sibling from different mother, 84.2% having from different father, 60.0% of their mothers were the only wife, 83.3% had their parents living together, 68.3% had fathers still alive and 88.3% had mothers still alive. Majority (67.5%) of the respondents were average and above in academic performance. However, 26.0% from broken homes had high performance against 22.9% from intact homes, 44.0% from broken homes had average against 42.9% from intact homes and 30.0% from broken homes were low compared with 34.3% from intact homes. There was a significant relationship between age (χ² = 24.417, p = 0.000), marital status (χ² = 135.050, p = 0.000), of the respondents and academic performance. Similarly, significant relationship existed between mother’s position among fathers’ wives (χ² = 7.5000, p = 0.000), having siblings from different mother (χ² = 24.417, p = 0.000), having siblings from different father (χ² = 56.333, p = 0.000), parents living together (χ² = 53.333, p = 0.000), fathers still alive (χ² = 16.133, p = 0.000), mothers still alive (χ² = 70.533, p = 0.000) of the respondents and academic performance. There is no significant relationship between respondents’ home status and academic performance (r = 0.017, p = 0.857). Also no significant difference between the academic performances of students from intact home and those from broken home (t = 0.153, p = 0.000). Most of the respondents came from intact homes and the percentages of respondents with average performance and those with high performance from broken homes were higher than those of respondents from intact homes. However, no significant difference existed between the academic performances of students from intact home and those from broken home.

Published in	Advances in Applied Sciences (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.aas.20210602.13
Page(s)	19-26
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Comparison, Academic Performance, Broken Home, Intact Home and College of Agriculture

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Michael Adejare Adegboye, Esther Honotina Adegboye. Comparison of the Academic Performance of Students from Intact Homes and Broken Homes in Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines in Plateau State, Nigeria. Adv Appl Sci. 2021;6(2):19-26. doi: 10.11648/j.aas.20210602.13

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Michael Adejare Adegboye

Department of Extension and Management, Federal College of Land Resources Technology, Kuru, Nigeria
Esther Honotina Adegboye

Department of Students’ Affairs/Counselling, Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology, Vom, Nigeria

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