Binary Logistic Analysis on the Assessment of Students’ Academic Performance on School-Based Factors in Some Selected Public Secondary Schools in Akinyele Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria

Ayoola F.J.^1, and Balogun K.O²

¹Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

²Federal School of Statistics, Ibadan, Nigeria

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Ayoola F.J. and Balogun K.O. Binary Logistic Analysis on the Assessment of Students’ Academic Performance on School-Based Factors in Some Selected Public Secondary Schools in Akinyele Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria. American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics. 2018; 6(2):61-66. doi: 10.12691/AJAMS-6-2-4

Abstract

Education has been acknowledged as a central component that determines the character and social economic development of any nation especially in this era of globalization and technological revolution failure in addressing adequate education in any country could lead to retrograde in both social and economic development. The study aimed at estimating the factors that are capable of influencing students; academic performance at some selected public Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination in Akinyele Local Government of Oyo State, Nigeria. This study employed the binary logistic regression to estimate the academic performance based on gender and general academic performance. The students’ academic performance were categorized into two: passed if the student has at least five credits including English and Mathematics and failed if otherwise. The result shows that students’ performance in senior school certificate examination of public secondary schools in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State will be better if the number of students per teacher follows international best practice (IBP) and library and laboratory are well equipped.

Keywords

school-base factors, students performance, public schools, logistic regression

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