EFFECT OF SCHOOL LOCATION ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE ESSAY WRITING IN LOKOJA
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This study investigated the effect of location on senior secondary school two (SSSII) students’ achievement in essay writing. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. The pre-test, post-test control quasi-experimental design was used for the study. The type was the non-equivalent control group, pretest, and post-test design. The population of the study consisted of 1,735 senior secondary school (SSSII) students from four co-educational secondary schools in Lokoja Education Zone of Kogi State, which was the area of the study. A purposive sampling technique was used to draw four schools out of these schools. The schools were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Intact classes of each of the four schools were drawn for the study giving a total of four intact classes. Students in the intact classes constituted the sample of 173 used for the study. Data were collected using the Narrative Essay English Language Achievement Test (NEELAT). The instrument was validated by experts from both the Arts and Science Education Departments, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The reliability index of 0.93 determined through Kendell’s coefficient of concordance was obtained for the reliability of the instrument. The research question was answered using mean and standard deviation while the hypothesis was tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at a 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that location had a significant impact on students’ achievement in English Essay writing. Based on the findings, it was concluded that the study provided empirical evidence of the impact of location in enhancing students’ achievement in English Essay writing
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