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| Descriptive Analysis on the Influence of Parent's Educational Attainment, Family Size, School Location and Availability of Structural Facilities on Pupils Education Accessibility and Completion Rate in Oyo State
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ADEDIRAN, Aliu Adedayo
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Abstract:
Education is considered a fundamental human right, and it is widely accepted as a fundamental key to individual, societal, and socio-economic development most especially at the foundation level. To pupils specifically, it has significant effect on the holistic wellbeing/development i.e social, emotional, language, physical, moral and intellectual development. Owing to this fact, it becomes imperative to note that the benefit of educating pupils at this stage qualifies it paramount. Sadly, it is an established fact that the accessibility and completion rate of the education at this level is dwindling such that the rate of out of school pupils is alarming. Some notable factors that precipitated the unprecedented reduction as revealed in research are, family size, parents-socio-economic status, family income level, education level of parents, school location, parent and pupils readiness amongst other factors. Hence, the paper examined descriptive analysis on the influence of parent's educational attainment, family size, school location and availability of structural facilities on pupils education accessibility and completion rate in oyo state. Eight research questions were answered. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprises all primary school teachers in Ibadan North Local Government. Simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 100 teachers as sample for the study. Four self-designed instruments were used for data collection. The instrument were validated and tested for reliability. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data collected. The finding of the study revealed that, the extent to which Parent's Educational Attainment Influence Pupils's Education Accessibility and completion Rate is High {(WA=3.5), (WA= 3.2). Also, the extent to which family size Influence Pupils's Education Accessibility and completion Rate is High {(WA=3.35), (WA=3.7), the extent to which school location Influence Pupils's Education Accessibility and completion Rate is High {(WA=3.7), (WA= 3.4), the extent to which personnel and structural facilities Influence Pupils's Education Accessibility and completion Rate is High {(WA=2.7), (WA= 3.2). It was recommended based on the findings that, efforts should be geared towards citing school sites in a conducive and stimulating environment. Also, school owners should ensure proper monitoring and strict security measures of retaining pupils in schools.
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