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    INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL LEVELS OF EDUCATION ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN BUSINESS STUDIES IN PUBLIC JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA
    (Faculty of Education, Kwara State University, Malete, 2020-08-01) 1Muhammed Modibbo Buba and 2Dr. B. N. Nwabufo
    The primary objective of the study was to determine the influence of parental levels of education on business students’ academic achievement in public junior secondary schools in Adamawa State, Nigeria. The study had two specific purposes from where two research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested. The study adopted a mixed of descriptive survey and ex-post facto design. The population constitutes 69,487 students which were drawn from junior secondary schools in five educational zones across the 21 local government area of Adamawa State. Simple random sampling technique was used to determine the sample of 382 students for the study. Structured questionnaires of 15 items were adopted for the study and the data collected were analysed using means and standard deviation, while the hypotheses were tested using simple linear regression analysis and Z-test at 0.05 level of significance. The major findings of the research include the following: parental level of education has a positive significance influence on the student’s academic achievement in Business Studies and there is no significance difference between males and females student’s academic achievement in Business Studies among junior secondary schools students in Adamawa State, Nigeria. It was concluded that parental levels of education positively influenced their learning. It was indicated in the findings that the students showed, higher academic achievement whose father and mother were more educated as compared to those students whose father and mother were not educated or less educated, as well as the study indicate that there is no significant difference between males and females student’s academic achievement in Business Studies. The researchers recommended that the school administrators through school open-day/exhibition week, PTA meetings and other means should urge parents who have low level of education to complement their children education by hiring additional lesson teachers for them at home, and parents who have high education should strive to read through their child’s note books and monitor their educational development.