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Consequences Of Child Abuse On Students Academic Performance As Perceived By Secondary School Teachers
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN METROPOLIS]
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Conclusion
Based
on the findings of this study it shows that child abuse has a negative
effect on student academic performance and adulthood development which
ultimately have adverse effect on the human capital development of the
country, such that we now have young adults with bad sense of
self-worth, self esteem and sense of moral value, this has contributed
to the rate of crime and social values, civic unrest and deviant
behaviours that is existing in the midst of teenagers and young adult in
our country today.
This has eaten so much into the economic
growth and development of Nigeria since we now have a very large number
of school drop-outs due to poor academic performance, the cycle of
poverty remains evidence among our people, because education and quality
education and quality education is the first step out of poverty. A
peculiar case of child abuse is child labour which ahs negative effects
on children’s human capital development. For instance researchers have
found out that child abuse is detrimental to children’s, education by
increasing lateness to school, absent in class, and reduction in time of
study (Togunde 2005, Beegle et al 2005, Akabayashi and Psacharopoules
1999). These negative consequences of child abuse on students’ academic
performance therefore calls for a policy thrust on the part of the
government to prevent Nigerian children from been abuse by their
parents, relatives and society at large.
Based on the findings of this study the following conclusions were drawn.
1. There is a strong negative correlation between the consequences of child abuse and students academic performance.
2.
There is no significant difference in teachers’ perception of the
consequences of child abuse on student’s academic performance.
3. There is an urgent need for every important stakeholder to come together in combating child abuse in our society.
4.
To reduce failure among students and increase their productivity at
home, we need to reduce or possibly eradicate child abuse and child
labour in our society.
Counselling Implication
The main
essence of counselling is to help on individual become more fully aware
of himself and the ways in which he is responding to the influences in
his environment and to develop and clearly set goals and values for
future behaviours. As it has been discussed earlier that child abuse is
an act of maltreatment or subjection that endangers a child’s physical,
emotional and health development, child abuse include not only physical
assault but also malnourishment, abandonment, neglect or subjection that
endangers a child’s physical emotional and health developments.
As a counsellor, there should be a seminar that will be organized for
the Parent Teacher’s Association (PTA) on the effects of child abuse on
students’ academic performance. The seminar should be the one that will
enlightened the Parent Teachers’ Association (PTA), that family climate
has a strong influence in the direction and development of interests,
abilities, aptitudes and values of children. Parents generally should
have time to monitor their children, take good care of them, show good
examples. Children who are being reared by guardians, outsiders, house
maids or day care givers should be monitored.
Parents who are
not educated must be enlightened on the importance of education and be
discouraged from any form of abuse which they have engaging and as a
consequently limited the development of the nation.
Teachers
should be advised to motivate the students’ to develop their potential
and extend their basic job, skills and knowledge, corporal punishment
should be discouraged.
More counsellors should be employed help
students in self-understanding as well as the acceptance and utilization
of individual ability aptitudes, interests in relation to his or her
aspiration. Guidance in schools therefore is more than concerned with
academic matters and choice of subjects. In relation with vocational
choice. It has to do more on the nurturing of the individual at every
stage of his/her development in order to eventually become useful to
himself and the society as a whole.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT   This study investigated the consequences of child abuse on students’ academic performance as perceived by secondary school teachers in some selected secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis.    A total of two hundred teachers (200) were randomly selected from the secondary schools. The instrument used for the study is questionnaire which is designed for teachers in each selected secondary schools. Two hundred copies of the questionnaire were distributed to the respondents ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 2 ] ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1:   Distribution of respondents by gender      62Table 2:   Distribution of respondents by religion       62Table 3:   Distribution of respondents by teaching experience                      63Table 4:   Distribution of respondents by subject area   64Table 5:   The mean scores and items ranking order on consequences of child abuse on students’ academic performance         65Table 6:   ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle Page  Approval  Dedication  Acknowledgement  Abstract  Table of Contents  List of Tables CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background to the Study  Statement of the Problem  Research Questions Research Hypotheses  Purpose of the Study  Significance of the Study Operational Definitions of Terms  Scope of the Study   CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Introduction  Who is a Child?   Student Academic Performance as affect by Child Abuse i ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]Statement of the ProblemChild
abuse is not just a social problem; it is rather an intellectual and
economic problem which is evident in the performance of children in
schools. In a situation where over seventy percent (70%) of student that
write the WAEC and NECO cannot boast of five credit pass including
Mathematics and English Language, then education sector need to be
looked into. A common feature of some Nigerians in the twentieth century
is to see and treat children the way th ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 9 ]Effect of Abuse on Academic PerformanceOne
of the most destructive consequences of child abuse may be the
detrimental effect on a child’s school performance. Over and over again,
research indicates that abused children demonstrate reduced
intellectual functioning and perform very poorly in school. And poor
school performance can have serious long-term consequences. Academic
failure has been associated with antisocial behaviour and quitting
school. These behaviours in turn in ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Reliability   Ojo (1991) affirmed that reliability is the basis of
accuracy and precision of measuring devises or a measurement procedure.
To established reliability of the instrument, the test-re-test method
was carried out to ascertain the reliability of the instrument. A total
number of 20 questionnaire forms were administered to some selected
secondary schools teachers.   The instrument was administered twice
with an interval of two weeks. The two test scores were correct ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 7 ]Hypothesis One There is no significant difference in teachers’ perception of consequence of child abuse on student’s academic performance in Ilorin Metropolis on the basis of gender.  The result in table 6 reveals that the calculated t-value is 0.26 while the critical t-value is 1.96. Since the calculated t-value is less than the critical t-value, the null hypothesis is therefore accepted. Hence, there is no significant difference in the perception of teachers on the consequences ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAdeniran, K. (2003). Child Abuse and Neglect among Junior Secondary Schools Students in Ibarapa Area of Oyo State Nigeria. Chalk, R., Gibbons A., Scarupa, H.J. (2002). The multiple dimensions of Child Abuse and neglect new insights into an old problem. Washington, DC: Child trends, Retrieved April 27, 2006, from www.childtrends.org/files/childabuse RB.pdf (PDF-82KB).Claussen, A.H. & Crihenden, PM (1991). “Physical and Psychological Maltreatment: Relations among types of Maltrea ... Continue reading---
