Home Educational Resources and Academic Performance of Students in Junior High Schools in Ayensudo Circuit, Central Region

Abstract

The study explore home educational resources on students’ academic performance in J.H.S.’s in Ayensudo Circuit. The study used a concurrent mixed method approach, utilising a questionnaire and an interview guide. The analysis of the research questions were done using descriptive and inferential statistics. The sample size for the study was 248. Based on the specific objectives that guided the study, the home background that influences the provision of home educational resources were parent occupation, income level, educational level and family size. Home educational resources parents are responsible to provide for their wards were food, water, stationaries, school uniform, private teacher, cubicles with tables and chairs and technological facilities. How students used home educational resources available to them were to eat food when hungry, to drink water when thirsty, to wear school uniform to school, to benefit from private tuition after school, to sit on table and chair to study comfortably and to do research with technological facilities. Challenges student face in accessing home educational resources were inadequate food and water to eat and drink when hungry and thirsty respectively, inadequate stationary to study with, inadequate tables and chairs to sit on and study comfortably at home, inadequate technological facilities to study with and lack of private teacher to provide extra tuition. The results on the provision of home educational resources had a significantly positive influence on students’ academic performance. This study recommends counselling service to encourage parents to improve on their socioeconomic factors to provide appropriate home educational resources adequately to their wards to use effectively to improve academic performance.