Home Environment as a Predictor of Students’ Academic Performance: A Case of Agona Seventh-day Adventist Junior High School in Ghana

Abstract

The study sought to examine the effect of the home environment on learners' academic performance at the Seventh-Day Adventist Junior High School, Agona, Ghana. The study used the descriptive survey design with a sample of 98 students and 22 teachers. Data was collected through a questionnaire and it was analyzed through descriptive statistics and Chi-Square. The study established that parents who had higher levels of education provided support for their wards to attain higher levels of education than parents with lowers levels of education. Children of parents with higher levels of education were provided with resources like learning materials to aid their education. The study recommends that parents should be encouraged to come up with strategies that will help them improve their income as this approach may enable them to provide basic school needs of their wards. School leaders should organize seminars to educate parents on the need to make the education of their wards a priority and to pay much attention to it. They should also educate parents on the benefits they can derive from their wards education.