Influence of Parental Education on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Islamic Studies in Ilorin Metropolis

Abstract

Parental socio-economic status has been identified as one of the capable factors affecting the academic performance of students in Nigerian education. So, one of the parental economic statuses is educational 
status which goes a long way to determine their children’s academic performances in school and educational decisions as a result of parental monitoring, guidance and most especially their attachments to education through provision of educational materials and other needs for their children. So, it is against this background that this paper examines the influence of parental education on secondary school students’ performance in Islamic Studies in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara State. The 
descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select fifteen public and private secondary schools in Ilorin metropolis, while simple random sampling technique was adopted to select six hundred students both male and female across the fifteen schools. An adapted questionnaire was used to gather information on the influence of parental education on senior secondary school students’ performance in Islamic Studies, while their terminal result in Islamic Studies was used to measure their academic performance. The adapted questionnaire was subjected to test re-test method. Findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between parental education and secondary school students’ academic performance in Islamic Studies in Ilorin metropolis based on gender, school location and school type. Therefore, the paper recommended that parents irrespective of their educational background should be enlightened on the need to prioritize their children’s education by visiting their schools and providing educational materials for their children, among others.