Parents and Students Perspectives of School Culture Effects on Dropouts and Non-dropouts in Sokoto Metropolis Nigeria

Type Journal Article - Research on Humanities and Social Sciences
Title Parents and Students Perspectives of School Culture Effects on Dropouts and Non-dropouts in Sokoto Metropolis Nigeria
Author(s)
Volume 3
Issue 18
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2013
Page numbers 89-96
URL http://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/viewFile/8959/9200
Abstract
The perspectives of four groups ‘were examined in related to school culture, on dropouts, non-dropouts students,
parents for dropouts and non-dropouts students respectively in schools of Sokoto metropolis. This was inspired
by the high rise of students’ dropouts in Sokoto state, Nigeria. Technically, dropouts and non-dropouts teaching
and learning issues were associated to challenges of school cultures on students. Survey method was adapted,
which used questionnaire for data collected, from a population of 1560, which included 30 junior secondary
school students (JSS). A One-way analysis of variance was conducted for the research and the result was
significant (sig) at the 0.05 level. Findings of the study suggested that school cultural factors influenced junior
secondary school students (JSS) dropouts and non-dropouts in schools based on the four groups perspectives
compared in Sokoto metropolis Nigeria.

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