Effect of Social Interaction on Academic Performance of Adult Learners

Effect of Social Interaction on Academic Performance of Adult Learners

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Effect of Social Interaction on Academic Performance of Adult Learners

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PRELIMINARY PAGES

CHAPTER ONE:

Introduction

  • 1.1 Background to the Study
  • 1.2 Statement of the Problem
  • 1.3 Purpose of the Study
  • 1.4 Research Questions
  • 1.5 Research Hypotheses
  • 1.6 Significance of the Study
  • 1.7 Scope of the Study
  • 1.8 Definition of Relevant Terms

CHAPTER TWO:

Literature Review

  • 2.1 Social Interaction among Teachers
  • 2.2 Overview of Teacher-Student Relationships
  • 2.3 Perception of Relationships
  • 2.4 Contributing Factors
  • 2.5 Perceived Control
  • 2.6 Effects of Teacher-Student Relationships
  • 2.7 Educational Outcomes
  • 2.8 Developing Positive Relationships

CHAPTER THREE:

Research Methodology

  • 3.1 Design
  • 3.2 Population of the study
  • 3.3 Sample size determination
  • 3.4 Instrument
  • 3.5 Data analysis
  • 3.6 Ethical consideration

CHAPTER FOUR:

Results And Discussion

  • 4.1 Results
  • 4.2 Discussion
  • 4.3 Implications of Results

CHAPTER FIVE:

Conclusion And Recommendations

  • 5.1 Conclusion
  • 5.2 Recommendations
  • REFERENCES

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effect of social interactions on the academic performance of adult learners in Lagos state. The purpose of this research were to establish the extent to which social interaction affect the academic performance of adult learner; examine how do social interaction contributeto the academic performance of adult learner; identify how adult learner utilize social interaction in class room and examine the relationship between social interactions and the performance of adult learners.

Four research questions and hypotheses were stated for the study. The descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. A total sample size of 120 part-time students was randomly selected using confidence interval of 5 and confidence level of 95% (0.05) from the total population of part-time students in the University of Lagos. The sampling technique used for the study was the simple random sampling (SRS), where 120 postgraduate part-time students were randomly selected from different department in Faculty of Education. A self-developed Likert-type scale titled “the effects of social interactions on the academic performance of adult learner Questionnaire” thoroughly scrutinized by the project supervisor was used for data collection.

The instrument was validated and found to be reliable. It was personally administered by the researcher. The data collected were analyzed with the use of descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentages were used in analyzing demographic variables and research questions while t-test was used to test hypothesis one and correlation coefficient to test hypothesis two at 0.05 level of significance.

The results obtained showed that, there is significant Effect of Social Interaction on Academic Performance of Adult Learners and there is significant relationship between social interactions and the performance of adult learners. Based on the conclusions the following recommended were made; that using social interaction to enhance the academic performance of adult learners is all about the method that should be encouraged by the adult facilitators. The individual learners should allow social interaction in teaching and learning process. Adult learners’ facilitators should encouraged social interaction among the adult learners.

Effect of Social Interaction on Academic Performance of Adult Learners

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction

1.1 Background to the Study

Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This often happens in the workplace, through ‘extension’ or ‘continuing education’ courses at secondary schools, at a college or university. Other learning places include folk high schools, community colleges, and lifelong learning centers. The practice is also often referred to as ‘Training and Development’. It has also been referred to as andragogy (to distinguish it from pedagogy). A difference is made between vocational education, mostly undertaken in workplaces and frequently related to up-skilling, and non-formal adult education including learning skills or learning for personal development.

Adult learn in diverse ways and one of them is by bringing together experience with what they can see. When it comes to learning, It is believed that children learn faster that adult. Children find it easier to grap and learn because there is nothing that takes away their attention or focus from it such as thoughts, worries, etc. Learning in adulthood is completely different from learning in childhood. In other to understand adult undergraduates, we must completely, not partially, look into and understand how adults learn. In this field of study, educators who specialize in adult education are more experienced and informed.

This study of adult learning theory will make available the foundation to thoroughly examine, evaluate roles institutional policies, services and the classroom environment have in persistence. Oftentimes institutions craft out curricula and services that are in accordance with adult learning that may have an effect on whether an adult undergraduate insists on graduation. ‘’Understanding learning in adulthood is like piecing together a puzzle; there are numerous area that must be put together before the total picture surfaces” ( Merriam & Caffarella, 1999). The individual learner, the context in which the learning takes place and the learning procedures are all parts of this puzzle. Adult learning is like glue that holds together the field of study, adult education that is numerous in content, clientele, and delivery system. In recent times, a lot of studies have been done on adult learning and a good number of the adult learning cantered on intelligence declined with age.

Studies concerning adult intelligence in the early part of the century were a product of both stained methodology and stained conclusion about the loss of intelligence later in life. Such studies were done in an artificial setting and timed educational tests were used to compare young learners with older learners. We know now that intelligence is not minimized during the aging process. Apparently, a large proportion in the kennel research of the 1990s shows that the more the brain is used, the less likely cognitive function will be lost.

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CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

This chapter focuses on the review of related literature. A literature review includes the current knowledge as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It documents the state of the art with respect to the topic you are writing. It surveys the literature in the topic selected. In this research work the literature review includes the …

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