PARENTAL PREFERENCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR THEIR CHILDREN IN KADUNA STATE

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1996-12
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VERONICA, IWANAN ABAGYEH
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This study titled "Parental Preference of Secondary Schools for their children in Kaduna State" is aimed at identifying possible factors that affect the choice of secondary schools by parents for their children. The researcher felt that there were some change in attitudes of most parents towards the choice of schools their children would attend. Such changes could be due to the parents socio-economic background, educational experience, academic performance of the schools/students, staff quality and quantity, school quality, funding of the schools, religious background and heritage. A set of questionnaire was used to collect data for the study and the parents responded to the items of the questionnaire. These responses were converted to raw scores and percentages were used in analysing the data collected. The Fratio (ANOVA) test was used to test the hypotheses. The findings of this study bordered mainly on the fact that most of the choices of schools made by parents for their children were closely related to their socio-economic background/class and status, academic performance of the school students/staff quality and quantity, general school quality, funding of the schools, and other unclassified reasons like political reasons, physical disabilities, school location and even heritage (this is where a child had to go to a school because his/her father/mother went to such a school). Again co-educational and single sex schools, vii science and Arts schools and Urban and Rural schools could be likely factors for parents choices for schools. Base on the above findings, it is the duty of the government and every individual involved in the educational system to make sure that the system is functional. Teachers should be employed on merit and should be given on-the-job training with materials necessary for effective teaching-learning process. Schools should be located nearest to the communities to reduce the cost of educating a child. Finally, school fees should be revised regularly to avoid unnecessary charging of high fees. viii
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA December, 1996 i i
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PARENTAL PREFERENCE,, SECONDARY SCHOOLS,, CHILDREN,, KADUNA STATE.
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