Assessment of senior secondary school students enrolment and attitude to formal education in banditry-ravaged areas in katisna state
Keywords:
Assessment, Attitude, Banditry-Ravaged Areas, Enrolment,, Formal EducationAbstract
Formal education, a structured and systematic learning process, has been threatened by banditry activities in
Katsina State. The study assessed senior secondary school students’ enrolment and attitude to formal education in
banditry-ravaged areas in Katisna State. The researchers adopted survey research design for the study. The target
population was made up of senior secondary school students’ in in banditry-ravaged areas in Katisna State, Nigeria.
Multi-stage sampling techniques were utilized for the study. Thus, a total of nine hundred and ninety-one (991) senior
secondary school students in banditry-ravaged areas in Katsina State participated in the study. The instrument used for
data collection was a questionnaire titled ‘Students’ Attitude towards Formal Education in Banditry Ravaged Areas
Questionnaire (SATFEBRAQ) with test-retest reliability coefficients 0.85. In addition, a Proforma was used to collect
five (5) years senior secondary students enrolment in banditry ravaged areas from the principal of the selected schools
for the study. Frequency, percentage, standard deviation, mean and rank-order were used to answer research questions
while t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the formulated hypotheses. Results show the alarmingly
low enrolment rates, which disproportionately affect both male and female students, all the 15 items on the Students'
Attitude towards Formal Education in Banditry Ravaged Areas Questionnaire have a significant negative impact on
students' attitudes towards formal education in these areas. Moreover,, no significant difference in the attitude of senior
secondary school students towards formal education in banditry-ravaged areas of Katsina State with respect to gender
229 (t = 0.229, df = 989, p > 0.05); Class (F1, 989 = 0.753, p > 0.05) and age (F1, 988 = 0.420, p > 0.05). The researchers
concluded that banditry activities have negatively impacted senior secondary school students' enrollment rates and
attitudes towards formal education in banditry-ravaged areas of Katsina State. The researchers recommend that
government should take decisive action to eliminate banditry thereby ensuring a safe and secure environment enables
students to attend school without fear.
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