Family factors and community agencies: pathways to students’ academic performance in Nigeria

Abstract

Academic performance of students is dependent on the various contributory factors that play major roles for quality output in human capital development in Nigeria. Therefore, this paper x-rayed the various family factors which are: parental attitude to education, parental occupation, family structure, parental educational background and parental involvement in education. Also community agencies are of two types which are: the registered and the unregistered agencies. The various pathways to students’ academic performance are: time management, enrolment style, motivation, robust financial aids, and friendly academic curriculum. It was concluded that family, community and government are the major cardinal points to student academic performance. It was suggested amongst others that family factors that contributes to the success of students should be fully adopted for continuity of academic performance of the students. The various pathways and community agencies should always be allowed to play out in ensuring that students’ academic performance is secured.