Parental Socio-economic Factors Affecting Academic Performance Of Students A Case Study Of Faculty Of Education And Extension Services, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto

ABSTRACT The research study investigated and identified the parental socio-economic factors affecting academic performance of students, a case study of Faculty of Education and Extension Services. A self-developed questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection, it was found that, parent socio-economic status is one of the major determinants of students’ performance, this is because considering the dependency of students on parents for their educational responsibilities as indicated that more than 60% of the respondents agreed that children educations responsibility is relies on …