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Influence of truancy on academic performance in business studies of JSS3 students in AkwaIbom. This study sought to investigate deviant behaviours and academic performance in business studies of secondary school students in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area.

Discussion of Findings

Table 1 that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who are truants and those who are not truants in Business Studies in Secondary Schools in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. This study is in agreement with the finding of Geo–opah (2003) who discovered that truants, due to their absence from school usually repeat classes and even when they are repeating, they do not feel better because they feel they are overqualified or too accomplished for such a class. Though, few of them (truants) manage to struggle through school, majority of them usually drop out of school if some form of interventions are not taken. Their level of achievement is generally low because of their lack of interest in learning. Most truants tend to view schooling as a form of punishment, while others attend classes just to please their parents and guardians. Students who skip schooling will most likely be unable to meet up with the curriculum set for them by the school. Thus, the impact of truant behavior on academic achievement overall scoring and performance of these students tend to be low.

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This finding also conformed to Oluremi (2013) who asserted based on his study that there is a positive relationship between truancy and Academic Performance of secondary school students in southwestern Nigeria. The study showed that indeed truancy had significant effects on the academic achievement of the students in the area.

Table 2 above indicates that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who abuse drugs differ from those who do not abuse drugs in Business Studies in Secondary Schools in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. This study confirms the finding of Hawkins, Calatano and Miler (2012) who had research and concluded that low level of commitment to education and higher truancy rates appear to be related to substance use among adolescents. Again drugs abused affect the brain, this result in major decline in the functions carried out by the brain.

This also conformed to the assertion of Lamb, (2019) that drug  abuse is  a  matter of  grave consideration  or attention  to  educational  stakeholders  and other professionals  in  various  disciplines.  Drug abuse is a local, national and international sensitive challenge that needs urgent attention due to the alarming rate of involvement of youth. It is imperative now, that the war against crime in society should start with fighting the use of drugs by our youths as people were likely to be law abiding and avoid crime if they were prevented from drugs abuse.

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION

This chapter of the research study will discuss on the summary, conclusion, recommendations and suggestion for further study of the findings.

• Summary

          The study examined the effect of deviant behaviours on academic performance in business studies of secondary school students in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area. Two research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study.  The survey research design was adopted in carrying out the research work. The population for this study consists of two thousand six hundred and eighty (2680) students of Business studies students in all the eight (8) public secondary schools in the study area. The simple random sampling technique was adopted in one hundred (100) students from four public secondary schools in the study area. The instrument used for gathering of the needed data for the study was Deviant Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and students’ raw scores. Data collected for the study was analyzed using independent t-test statistical Method.

          The results of the findings showed that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who are truants and those who are not truants; and that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who abuse drugs differ from those who do not abuse drugs in Business Studies in public secondary schools in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area.

5.2     Conclusion

Based on the result of this study, it was established that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who are truants and those who are not truants; and that there is a significant difference in academic performance of students who abuse drugs differ from those who do not abuse drugs in Business Studies in public secondary schools in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area.

Recommendations

          Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made:

1. Effort should be made by teachers to intensify teaching of morals and acceptable norms of the society in order to ensure that truancy is minimized in schools.
2. Deviant behaviours such as drugs intake should always attract punishment to serve as preventive measure for others.
3. Teachers must ensure that stealing is out rightly discouraged among the students.
4. Stiff penalty should be instituted by the school management as a check against students’ who indulges in drug abuse.
5. Both teachers and parents should dress decently and act as role models to their children and always care to check what their children wear to school as well as the public.

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5.4     Suggestion for further Studies

          It is important that the research work should be carried out in the following areas:

1. Parental upbringing and the learning outcome of students in business studies.
2. Peer group influence and students’ academic achievement in Business studies

Also the study should be carried out in other subjects and in another area of study in order to compare the results of the findings.

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