INFLUENCE OF CHILD ABUSE ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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ABSTRACT
This project work focuses on the effects of child abuse on students’ academic performance. The study attempts to unravel the causes, effects and remedies to child abuse among secondary school students in Lagos State. It was carried out in Bariga Local Government Area of Lagos State. Specifically, the study tried to; identify the personal characteristics of students’ and teachers in public Secondary school in Bariga Local Government Area and investigate the effect of child abuse on students’ academic performance in Secondary school. In order to achieve these objectives, the following research questions were advanced; (i) what is the extent of the effect of child abuse on students’ assessment grades and academic performance?(ii) What is the extent of the effect of child abuse on students’ participation in class activities and academic performance? Two research hypotheses were also formulated in furtherance of the study; (i) Child abuse has no significant effects on students’ assessment grades and academic performance (ii) Child abuse has no significant effects on students’ participation in class activities and academic performance. The study uses the survey design and the population of the study was the 195public Secondary schools identified in Bariga Local Government Area. However the research selected 20 out of them for a closer study through the simple random sampling technique. Primary data was collected through the use of questionnaire, presented and analyzed by means of simple percentages. A cut-off mean of 2 points was the bench mark for answering research questions and hypotheses were tested using the one-sample t-test. The research revealed that; child abuse has significant effects on both students’ assessment grades and their participation in class activities; and thus concludes that child abuse has significant effects on students’ academic performance in Secondary school. It was recommended that; child abuse and it effects should receive attention in education policy forums; and that parents should always relate to their children with love and affection and provide for their needs; there should be public enlightenment programs to combat mass ignorance and public awareness on the right to freedom from all forms of child abuse; as much as possible, teachers/caregivers should avoid the use of corporal punishment because it only teaches children that violence is the best way of maintaining control and it encourages them to hit other children; there should be provision of nurturing and supportive child friendly school, learning environment free from noise, distractions, discrimination and abuse of any kind; a child should not be disciplined when the adult’s anger is out of control; intense awareness should be created among teachers and school managers using seminars, workshops and training programs about what constitutes child abuse; all forms of abuse should be exposed to this class of caregivers so as to draw their attention to some of the unintentional acts that bother on child abuse; teaching profession should be professionalized to ensure that there is no one teaching as a second best option, this would ensure that people in this profession really see it as their contribution to society’s development; and penalty for teachers’ who commit sexual abuse with their students should be severe enough to deter other perpetrators.
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