Poor Feeding Pattern as a Factor Militating Against Students’ Achievement in Chemistry; A Mechanism for Sustainable Development

Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin; Abdullahi Babale; Adamu Tairu Arome; Mustapha Yusuf Hamza

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Poor Feeding Pattern as a Factor Militating Against Students’ Achievement in Chemistry; A Mechanism for Sustainable Development

Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin, Abdullahi Babale, Adamu Tairu Arome, Mustapha Yusuf Hamza

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This research work examined poor feeding pattern as a factor militating against students’ academic achievement in chemistry which is a mechanism to sustainable development. Its main objective is to examine the Effects of feeding pattern on Academic Achievement of Students and to find out whether poor feeding is gender sensitive or not. In this study, a survey research design was used with an instrument titled Feeding Pattern as a Factor Militating against Students’ Achievement in Chemistry Questionnaire (FPMSACQ) and also their examination results for first term 2014/2015 academic session as data collection instrument with three hundred and six (306) respondents from six selected secondary schools from Sabon Gari local Government Area of Kaduna state chosen as sample using Krejcie and Morgan table of determining sample size. The analytical tools used was statistical package for social sciences (SPSS, Version 20). The result obtained shows that food insecurity has no significant effect on student’s academic achievements in the study area this is as a result of the fact that the students were found to have good feeding pattern, since the P value is higher than the alpha level of significance ≤0.05. Further investigation and analysis was done which shows that food security has significant effect on the student’s academic achievement since the alpha level of significance was found to be P≤ 0.05. It is recommended that the government should inculcate standard educational programs for orphans and also NGO’s should aid the government.

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Feeding Pattern, Chemistry Students, Academic Achievement, Sustainable Development

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Ibrahim Muhammad Shamsuddin

Science Department, Maude International Schools, Zaria, Nigeria
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Department of Chemistry, Federal College of Education, Zaria, Nigeria
Adamu Tairu Arome

Biology Department, Federal College of Education, Zaria, Nigeria
Mustapha Yusuf Hamza

Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Applied Science Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina, Nigeria

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