The academic performance of any child cannot be separated from the home background in which the child grows up. A healthy home background offers emotional security to a child. Agholor (2005), This investigation that has adopted refined measure of family, influences have tended to show that they are related more strongly to academic outcome, than global measure of family background.
The impact of family background on the academic achievement in school is today receiving wide acknowledgment in many, educational circles within the globe, the attention with this factor is receiving is tend credence to this point of view that influence the home has on the child learning.The child’s fundamental concepts of life his values and most of his habits and basic adjustment are established during pre-school years. Asaga (2006) this highlight the fact that the home and parent occupy the most important position in the child’s educational environment and whatever he could make out of it in the same way Akinboye (1996) trace their view from the time the child is born into the family and felt that the tone of the child mother or child father interaction and the style of discipline in the family may have effect on the (learning) rates of the child. The child’s environment outside the school (his home background) determines his academic performance of the children.This study is basically to find out how the home background of a child affects his academic performance everyone is born with some potentials, or abilities which could be utilized to the optimum for the development of his personal although students may be exposed to the same teacher and the same condition in the school yet, they may not attain to wonder why there are remarkable differences in their performance hence this study is intended to find out to which extent the variable in the home background contribute to his academic performance.The study is designed to examine the following; 1.
The effect of family size on students academic performance 2. The effect of parent’s socio-economic status of children or students academic performance. 3. To ascertain the impact of parents academic qualification on children or students academic performance.
This study is designed specifically to find out and understand how the child’s home background determine his academic performance, the child’s environment have helped to bring about a lowered or increased outcomes in the child’s academic performance. 1. The effect of home environment on the child academic performance. 2.
Parents academic qualification as it affect child education 3. Parent’s socio-economic statuses have effect on child education.This study is basically designed to investigate the effect of parental socio-economic background academic qualification size of family the home environment. The study will therefore highlight the significant difference in various home backgrounds. The study will enable educational and curriculum planners to take full cognizance of individual difference among children in any teaching learning environment while planning of it will enable the teacher to adapt new dimension approaches while teaching finally parents perspective or their educational qualification should encourage the children at home and also provide the maximum stimulation at all time.
For the purpose of this study the following research questions are asked; 1. Does the size of the family and the child position affect his academic performance? 2. Does the academic qualification of the child’s parents affect his academic performance in school 3. Does the socio-economic class of a child’s parents affect his academic performance? 4. Does the home environment has any effect on students academic performance?This project was designed to research into the effects of home background on the academic performance of children in selected schools in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State.
In doing this, three research questions were stated and some basic assumptions made. A sample of one hundred students was drawn out of three selected schools; the research instrument used was the questionnaires while the data analysis involved the use of the research questions. On the basis of the findings that emerged from the study some of the following recommendations were made:1. The society should promote the monogamous family image,.
This will help to regulate the number of children produced in the family. 2. Parents should encourage and motivate their children to study 3. The school can help the child especially the extremely dull ones by investigating into their homes background, and assessing likely factors responsible for the child’s dullness and seeking out avenues of helping the child overcome his problem. 4. The government should endeavour to provide free nursery education with qualified teachers that will educate the children from their tender ages.
5. The government should help the children from poor home by providing an equipping libraries and parks for them in strategic locations
