Post-UTME screening and year one students' academic performance: any relationship?

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dc.contributor.authorLawrence, Kehinde Clement
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dc.date.accessioned2026-02-26T06:21:23Z
dc.date.available2026-02-26T06:21:23Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentNameEducational Foundations
dc.description.abstractAdequate high-level skilled manpower is needed to drive and sustain economic, sociocultural and political development of any nation, to achieve this, quality university education is pivotal. Hence this study examined the relationship of career counseling,study habit pattern family socioeconomic status with academic performance of the University of Ibadan year one students. In Nigeria, the National UniversityCommission (NUC) an umbrella body of all universities both private and government owned introduced Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) to screen further candidates for university admission. Three hundred (300) students across fourteen faculties were recruited using a multistage sampling technique to respond to a structured measuring instrument, with the participants’ current CGPA. The results established that there was a positive and significant relationship of all the factors with academic performance of the participants; school counseling (r =.610, p<0.01) and study habits (r =.731, p<0.01). The study concludes that school counseling and study habits are important factors for improving academic performance of university students. Thus, the study recommends students’ personal study habits skills development, establishment of faculties/colleges counseling unit in addition to central university counseling center so as to cater for individual student peculiarity via their field of study.
dc.facultyFaculty of Education
dc.identifier.citationLawrence, K.C., 2020. Post-UTME screening and year one students' academic performance: any relationship?. International Journal of Education and Practice, 8(3), pp.577-585.
dc.identifier.issn2310-3868 (online)
dc.identifier.issn2311-6897 (print)
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi:org/10.18488/journal.61.2020.83.577.585
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10530/58862
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dc.issuenumber8 / 3
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dc.language.isoen
dc.pages577 - 585
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherConscientia Beam
dc.subjectAcademic performance
dc.subjectFamily social-economic status
dc.subjectPost-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME)
dc.subjectSchool counseling
dc.subjectStudy habits
dc.subjectUniversity of Ibadan
dc.subjectYear one students
dc.titlePost-UTME screening and year one students' academic performance: any relationship?
dc.title.alternativePost-unified tertiary matriculation examination screening and year one students' academic performance
dc.title.journalInternational Journal of Education and Practice
dc.typeJournal Article
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