Health Status as a Correlate of Reading Comprehension Achievement in Senior Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State of Nigeria ()
ABSTRACT
The study investigated health status as a correlate of reading
comprehension achievement in Ebonyi State
of Nigeria. A correlation design was adopted for the study. The population of
the study was 33,986 and the sample size was 396 respondents selected, using
the Taro Yamane sampling formulae. Instruments for data collection were a health status inventory and a reading comprehension text from the
government prescribed text. One research question and one hypothesis were
formulated for the study. While research question was answered using coefficient of correlation, hypothesis was tested at
an alpha level of 0.05 of significance, using step-wise linear regression.
Items whose “T” was less than significance of “T” were
accepted, while items whose “T” was more
than significance of “T” were rejected.
Results showed that health status was a variable that has a high positive relationship with reading comprehension achievement. Result of hypothesis equally showed that “T” was greater than significance of “T” which was an indication that there is a significant relationship between
health status and students’ reading comprehension achievement. Based on this,
recommendations were made, among which, is that the government of Ebonyi State
should both approve and affect the
setting up of health clinics in every secondary school of up to 1000 students
and above, with at least one visiting doctor.
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Ngwoke, R. , Obeka, N. and Okonkwo, F. (2019) Health Status as a Correlate of Reading Comprehension Achievement in Senior Secondary Schools in Ebonyi State of Nigeria.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
7, 411-419. doi:
10.4236/jss.2019.712032.
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