The Relationship Between Gender, School Location And Students Mathematics Achievement In Secondary Schools In Makurdi

This study investigated the relationship between gender, school location and students mathematics achievements in secondary schools. Six secondary schools were selected, urban and rural areas with a total of 210 students, selected from all the sampled secondary schools. Mock Examination results in SS2 students were collected from the Benue State Examination Board (BSEB) and analyzed using Mean, Standard deviation and persons correlation coefficient. Two research questions and hypothesis were formulated and tested. The result revealed that gender, and school location has no significant relationship with students recommendations were made as well as suggested for further study.

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Author and article information

Journal

Title: ScienceOpen Preprints

Publisher: ScienceOpen

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 6 December 2020

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Mathematics Education, Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, Nigeria

[2 ] Department of Chemistry Education, Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi, Nigeria

Author information

Ngutor Tembe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7962-3248

Shalom Tembe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3277-4732

Article

DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPPWQAU.v1

SO-VID: c5e2e8ac-a49d-4627-821d-242c7fd10d9c

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History

Date received : 6 December 2020

Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

ScienceOpen disciplines: Education,Statistics,Mathematics

Keywords: Gender, School Location, Mathematics Achievement