Perception of Parents, Teachers and Students on Impact on Insurgency on School Attendance among Secondary School Students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined the perception of parents, teachers and students on the impact of insurgency on school attendance among secondary school students in the North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. Three (3) research questions with their corresponding objectives and three (3) hypotheses were generated to guide the study. The study adopted a 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 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 school attendance among Senior Secondary School Students Questionnaire (PPTSIISSSQ). The questionnaire yielded 0.68 as the validity index and 0.75 as the reliability index. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while the independent t- test statistics were used to test all the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant impact of insurgency on school attendance among senior secondary school students in the North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. The study concluded that there is a reduction in school attendance among senior secondary school students in the North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria, as a result of insurgency. The study recommended that since the insurgency has reduced school attendance and school among senior secondary school students in the North East Geo-Political Zone, the Federal Government of Nigeria should seek technical assistance from foreign countries such as the USA and Israel, among others, to train the country’s security agents on how to curb the insurgency so that school attendance could be boosted.