Authors :
TARFA Fredrick Salvia; DIKE Chinyere Ogochukwu
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 3 - March
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6395383
Abstract :
This study examined Gender Differences in
the Academic Performance of Students in Senior
Secondary School Mathematics. The population of the
study comprises eighteen (18) Senior Secondary Schools
in Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa
State, Nigeria who registered and sat for General
Mathematics at West African Senior Secondary Schools
Examination (WASSCE) for the period of five (5) years
2013 – 2017. Six (6) mixed schools were sampled out of
the population of the study with a total number of three
thousand seven hundred and sixty four (3764) students
of which two thousand one hundred and sixty (2160)
students representing 57.4% of the sampled population
are male students and one thousand six hundred and
four (1604) students representing 42.6% of the sampled
population are female students. A simple random
sampling technique was used in the selection of the six
(6) sampled schools. An expo facto design was adopted
for this study. Simple percentages and T-test analysis
were used for the data analysis. The analysis essentially
involves the statistical testing of the hypotheses at 0.05
alpha level which form the basis for the acceptance or
rejection of each null hypothesis stated. The study
revealed that the distribution of performance of male
and female students in Mathematics in the period
sampled for the study varies as it kept changing over
the years examined. It shows that less than 50% of the
students who sat for West African Senior Secondary
Schools Examination (WASSCE) Mathematics over the
years had credit pass A1 – C6. This means that there is
a significant difference in gender based academic
performances of students in Mathematics in the selected
sampled schools in the period examined for the study.
The study recommends that female students ought to be
admonished to approach science subjects especially
Mathematics without inferiority complex to the male
students.
Keywords :
Academic Performance, Gender Difference, Mathematics, Student
This study examined Gender Differences in
the Academic Performance of Students in Senior
Secondary School Mathematics. The population of the
study comprises eighteen (18) Senior Secondary Schools
in Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa
State, Nigeria who registered and sat for General
Mathematics at West African Senior Secondary Schools
Examination (WASSCE) for the period of five (5) years
2013 – 2017. Six (6) mixed schools were sampled out of
the population of the study with a total number of three
thousand seven hundred and sixty four (3764) students
of which two thousand one hundred and sixty (2160)
students representing 57.4% of the sampled population
are male students and one thousand six hundred and
four (1604) students representing 42.6% of the sampled
population are female students. A simple random
sampling technique was used in the selection of the six
(6) sampled schools. An expo facto design was adopted
for this study. Simple percentages and T-test analysis
were used for the data analysis. The analysis essentially
involves the statistical testing of the hypotheses at 0.05
alpha level which form the basis for the acceptance or
rejection of each null hypothesis stated. The study
revealed that the distribution of performance of male
and female students in Mathematics in the period
sampled for the study varies as it kept changing over
the years examined. It shows that less than 50% of the
students who sat for West African Senior Secondary
Schools Examination (WASSCE) Mathematics over the
years had credit pass A1 – C6. This means that there is
a significant difference in gender based academic
performances of students in Mathematics in the selected
sampled schools in the period examined for the study.
The study recommends that female students ought to be
admonished to approach science subjects especially
Mathematics without inferiority complex to the male
students.
Keywords :
Academic Performance, Gender Difference, Mathematics, Student
