GENDER INFLUENCE ON CHOICE OF SUBJECT IN SSCE EXAMINATION(A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU STATE)
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GENDER
INFLUENCE ON CHOICE OF SUBJECT IN SSCE EXAMINATION(A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU NORTH
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU STATE)
Abstract
This study was conducted in the five
mixed senior secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu
State on Gender influence on choice of subject in SSCE Examination. The purpose
of the study was to determine the subject preferred by males than females,
identifying factors associated with subject choice and determine the problems
affecting the subject choice of students. Descriptive survey method was
adopted. There are seven hundred and fifteen (715) Students in Senior Secondary
3 (SS3) in Enugu North, random sampling was used to select two hundred and
fifty (250) out of 715 students. The questionnaire was used for data collection
and the items were descriptive of frequencies and mean responses. The basic
findings showed that greater of males choose science subjects based on their
greater aptitude in mathematics. The major problems that influenced the choice
of both males and females were: Gender, family background, job opportunity,
parents, teachers and peer group. It was recommended that the students,
teachers and parents should be exposed to the needs of choosing subjects that
one knows better.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Gender,
according to Longman Dictionary (2000) is defined as the fact of being male or
female. Oxford Dictionary 5th edition (1998) defines gender as the condition of
being male or female. The New
International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language (2004)
has it that “gender corresponds to sex. Animate beings are either masculine or
feminine. Britannica volume 5 (2005) defines gender as self-conception of being
a male or female as distinguished from actual biology sex. From the above
definitions, gender can be then be defined as “the fact of being male or
female.”
According to Oxford Dictionary 5th
Edition (1998) influence is to have effect on somebody on their behaviour. It
is the power to affect somebody’s actions, character or beliefs especially by
providing an example for them to follow.
Longman
Dictionary (2000) defines influence as the power to affect the way someone
develops, behaves or thinks without
using direct force or order. Also, the New International Webster’s
Comprehensive Dictionary (2004) sees influence as the power or process of
producing an effect upon a person, by intangible means. Influence, therefore, is the power to affect
the way someone develops, behaves or thinks without directly forcing or
ordering the person.
The Oxford Advanced Learners
Dictionary 6th edition (2000) defined “Choice” as an act of choosing between
two or more possibilities. The New
International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary of English Language (2004)
says that Choice is the act, fact, power or privilege of choosing; selecting a
number or variety from which to choose, the power to prefer or select.
Brittannica volume 3 (2004) defines choice as a corollary of the proposition of
the free will, that is, the ability voluntarily to decide to perform one of
several possible acts or to avoid action entirely. Choice can therefore be
defined as the power to prefer or select.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary
English (2000) defines subject as the things you are talking abut or
considering in a conversation, discussion.
It is the area of knowledge that one study. For the purpose of this
research work, subjects are the courses offered in Senior Secondary Certificate
Examination (SSCE) which are sciences and Arts.
Senior Secondary Certificate
Examination (SSCE) is the external Examination that students in Senior
Secondary Three (SS3) take as the final examination usually organized by the
West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council
(NECO).
Nigerian Government is committed to
building a nation devoid of gender discrimination, guaranteeing equal access to
political education, social and economic wealth, creating opportunities for
women and men.
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), (2001) pointed out that gender development index in Nigeria stood at
0.423 ranking 124thcountry in the world expowerment index for men was 0.456 and
that of women was 0.442 indicating that men were marginally better than women
not withstanding that “what a man can do, a woman can do it better.”
In the traditional society, women
were highly discriminated against and marginalized to the point that education
of young women were regarded as a wastage of resources, since their education
will end-up in kitchen. Because of this, women choose subjects like Arts that
will allow them carry out their domestic responsibilities alongside their
education. Gender is a concept that is dynamic and its relationships always
subject to changes, however, it varies from one country to another.
United National International
Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), (1998) defines gender as “the various
socially and culturally constructed roles, qualities, responsible behaviours,
power and so on that are described to women and men by different societies.
Gender influence on choice of
subjects has been a topic in recent global development initiatives (Clifford,
1999). Gender plays decisive role on
students’ choice of subject in Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE),
Measor and Sikes, (1996) observed that most societies prescribe different
activities and characteristics for male and females which may come to be seen
as natural by people involved.
Therefore, there are courses such as mathematics and other science
subjects that involved calculations which are ascribed as male subjects while
those that requires less quantitative implications were attributed to female
subjects along these line determines the gender preference at each point in
time.
However, women are competing
favourably with men in choosing science subjects. The present study seeks to investigate the influence
of gender on choice of subjects in SSEC Examination with emphasis on Enugu
North Local Government Area of Enugu State.
In summary, the variables of this
work are gender being the independent variable and choice being the dependent
variable. This is so because gender cannot be changed, it remains what it is
while choice changes.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The researchers would like to know
if:
1. Students choose science or Arts subjects
because of their gender (sex);
ii. they make choice of subject based on how
difficulty or easy a given course (subject) may be;
iii. some make choice of subject under the
influence of their parents, teachers and their fellow students (peer group);
iv. the family background of students
influences their choice of subject in Senior Secondary School Certificate
Examination (SSCE);
v. the nature of School (availability of
equipment and presence of qualified and experienced teachers) attended by the
student and if
vi. job opportunity of a given course
(subject) also influences the choice of subject by the students.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose
of this study is to find out gender preference of subjects choice in Senior
Secondary Certificate Examination (SSEC).
The study seeks to
i. identify the particular subjects the
male and female students will differently prefer to register in SSCE
Examination;
ii. examine problems encountered by students
in choice of subjects;
iii. examine various solution areas on
problems of gender preference in choice of subjects;
iv. investigate if female students take
science subjects than male students and
v. know the attitudes of parent and
teachers on choice of subjects in Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations.
1.4 Significance of the Study
This study
(research work) will be significant to: the researchers themselves, their
follow-up students; parents; schools; government and the legislators (policy
makers).
1. This study will help the researchers to
graduate successfully.
2. It will serve as a reference material to
their (researchers) follow-up students.
3. Through this study, parents will know
that it is better to allow their children (students) to make their choice of
subject rather than influence them.
4. The school uses it (research work) as a
reference material in the library.
5. This research work will improve the yet
to come government, being that the students does not deviate from their field
of study.
6. It will enable the policy makers
(legislators) to initiate young women aspiring subjects to compete with men in
specialized science areas.
1.5 Research Questions
The
following research questions were formulated to guide this study:
1. Does gender has any effects on choice of
subject in Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE)?
2. Does student choose subject because of
how difficult or easy the subject may be?
3. Do parents, teachers and peer-group
influence students choice of subjects?
4. Does student family background affects
their choice of subjects in Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE)?
5. Does the nature of Schools attended by
students affect their choice of subjects?
6. Does job opportunity of a subject (course)
influence the students’ choice of subject?
1.6 Scope and Limitation of the Study
This study is limited to Senior
Secondary Class 3 (SS3), in five mixed secondary schools, randomly selected in
Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State.
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