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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
This study
was undertaken to determine the influence of social environment indices on
students’ academic achievement in Civic Education in public secondary schools
in Cross River State, Nigeria. In line with the specific objectives of the
study, four research questions were set and four null hypotheses were
accordingly formulated to guide the study. The ex-post facto research design
was adopted for the study. The study population comprised all the 9,696 Senior
Secondary-Two Students in the 193 public secondary schools in Cross River
State, Nigeria in the 2023/2024 academic session. 969 Students (10%) of the
study population were selected as the sample size for the study. An instrument
entitled “Social Environment Indices and Academic Achievement Questionnaire
(SEIAAQ)” was used to collect data for the study. The instrument was given a
face validation by experts in Test and Measurement. While, the reliability
estimate of the instrument was determined using the Cronbach’s Alpha
Correlation Coefficient statistics. Data collected were first described using
Mean and Standard Deviation statistics before they were analysed using the
One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and ‘Z’-test statistics at 0.05 level of
significance. The findings were that family structure, peer-group and social
media usage have significant influence on students’ academic achievement in
Civic Education, while school location does not have any significant
statistical influence on academic achievement in Civic Education. Based on the
findings, it was recommended among other things that there is a need for the
school authority and parents to checkmate students’ social media usage to avoid
addiction, so that students' academic achievement in Civic Education in Cross
River State will not continue to be a mirage.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2024 pp. 1-10