Sex difference in the prevalence of dyscalculia among public secondary school students in Nigeria

Abstract

This study examined sex difference in the prevalence of dyscalculia among public secondary school students in Ika South Local  Government Area of Delta, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised with their corresponding hypothesis formulated and tested at  0.05 alpha level of significance. This research adopted the descriptive survey research design. The population comprised of ten thousand,  three hundred and ninety-two (10,392) students as at 2021/2022 academic session and the multistage sampling technique was employed  to select one thousand, three hundred and forty-four (1,344) respondents were used for the study. The research instrument was a  questionnaire titled “Dyscalculia Screening Questionnaire Among Secondary School Students” (DSQ) which was adapted from the  Dyscalculia Screening Tool (DST) as developed by Adaikala and Pio (1982). The data was analysed using the descriptive statistics (mean  and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (t-test and one-way ANOVA). The finding of the study revealed that dyscalculia disorder  was moderately prevalent among public secondary school students in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. It was also found  that there is no significant sex difference among secondary students with dyscalculia in Ika South Local Government of Delta State. It is  therefore recommended that intervention should be provided to secondary school students to manage the prevalence of dyscalculia  among secondary school students.