INSURGENCY ON SCHOOL ENROLMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NORTH-EAST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined the perception of parents, teachers and students on impact of insurgency on secondary school students’ attainment in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. Nine (9) research questions with their corresponding objectives and nine (9) hypotheses were generated to guide the study. The study adopted cross-sectional survey research design. The population of the study comprised 369,797 (202,720 students, 14,562 teachers and 152,515 parents) from 696 public senior secondary schools in three states in the North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria.
Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select the respondents from the three states. The sample size of the study consists of 6117 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a self-developed questionnaire titled Perception of Parents, Teachers and Students on Impact of Insurgency on Senior Secondary School Students’ Attainment Questionnaire (PPTSIISSSAQ). The questionnaire yielded 0.68 as the validity index and 0.75 as reliability
index. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the independent t- test statistics was used to test all the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant impact of insurgency on school attendance, school enrollment and school dropout among senior secondary school students in North East Geo-Political Zone and, Nigeria. The study concluded that there is a reduction in school attendance, enrolment and increased rate of dropout, among senior secondary school students
in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria as a result of insurgency. In view of the conclusion of the study recommendations were proffered.