Correlation Between Attitude and Socio-Economic Status of Students’ Performance in Computer Science

Edosomwan Joseph Henry; Edosomwan Taiwo Olukemi

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Correlation Between Attitude and Socio-Economic Status of Students’ Performance in Computer Science

Edosomwan Joseph Henry, Edosomwan Taiwo Olukemi

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 3, Issue 4)

Received: 16 July 2015 Accepted: 21 July 2015 Published: 31 July 2015

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Abstract

This research study examined a dependent relationship between students’ attitude and socio-economic status performance in computer science. For the purpose of this work, 200 Junior and Secondary School students in Oredo, Egor, Ikpoba-Okha and Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria were investigated. The instruments for the data collection were students’ socio-economic status questionnaire, students’ attitude using computing scale and computer science performance test. A research questionnaire (Fraser’s 1981) was used to collect data. The reliability of each instrument was determined using test-retest method at two weeks interval. The result shows that the reliability coefficients for students’ socioeconomic status questionnaire, students’ attitudes to computer science scale and computer science performance test were 0.82, 0.93 and 0.81 respectively. Three null hypotheses were used to test the relationship between students’ socio-economic status, attitudes to computer science and their performance in computer science. The investigation lasted for 28 days. All the null hypotheses were rejected at 0.05 levels, this reveals that there s a dependent relationship existing between students socio-economic status, students attitudes to computer science and performance in computer science.

Published in	Science Journal of Education (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjedu.20150304.11
Page(s)	75-77
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Attitude, Correlation, Performance, Socio-Economic, Test-Retest

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Edosomwan Joseph Henry

Department of Computer Science, College of Education, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria
Edosomwan Taiwo Olukemi

Department of Computer Science, College of Education, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria

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