Impact of Parental Support on Biology Students’ Academic Achievement and Attitude: Exploring School Location as a Moderator
Keywords:
parental support, biology students’ achievement, attitude, school locationAbstract
Regardless of parents’ economic status in the society, parents would want the success of their children in school and also love to see them highly placed in the society in future. Many times, daily engagements of parents divert their attention from the required academic support needed by the child. This could hinder the actualization of their good intentions, academic achievement and attitude of that child. Thus, the need for this study; impact of parental support on biology students’ academic achievement and attitude using school location as a moderating variable. Ex-post facto research design was employed for the study. 7357 senior secondary school two (SSS2) biology students in Onitsha education zone of Anambra state formed the population of the study. The sample size was 379 SSS2 biology students drawn from the population. Parental Support Questionnaire (PSQ), Biology Achievement Test (BAT) and Students’ Attitude Rating Scale in Biology (SARSB) were all researchers’ developed instrument for data collection. All the instruments were face validated by experts from department of science education, faculty of education, university of Nigeria, Nsukka. 0.82 reliability index was obtained for BAT using Kuder-Richardson 20 formula (KR-20). PSQ and SARSB gave a reliability coefficient of 0.79 and 0.85 respectively using Cronbach Alpha method. All the research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while all the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using analysis of variance (ANOVA). It was revealed in the finding that the impact of parental support on students’ achievement in biology is significant; there is no significant impact of parental support on students’ attitude in biology; school location is a significant factor on the impact of parental support on students’ achievement in biology; school location is not a significant factor on the impact of parental support on students’ attitude in biology. Based on the findings; it was recommended among others that sensitization of parents on the need for their support on improving their academic achievement and attitude should carried out by the school management.
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