Family and Community Inputs as Predictors of Students' Overall, Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Learning Outcomes in Secondary Schools

There are contradictory results regarding how students' learning outcomes can be predicted by various family and community inputs among previous studies, creating an evidence gap. Furthermore, previous studies have mostly concentrated on the cognitive aspect of students' learning outcomes,...

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Published inJournal of Pedagogical Research Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 103 - 127
Main Authors Ekpenyong, John A, Owan, Valentine J, Mbon, Usen F, Undie, Stephen B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Journal of Pedagogical Research 2023
Subjects
Affective Behavior
Cognitive Development
Cultural Capital
Factor Analysis
Family Role
Foreign Countries
Measures (Individuals)
Outcomes of Education
Parent Participation
Predictor Variables
Principals
Psychometrics
Psychomotor Objectives
Reliability
School Community Relationship
Secondary School Students
Social Capital
Validity
Nigeria
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Summary:There are contradictory results regarding how students' learning outcomes can be predicted by various family and community inputs among previous studies, creating an evidence gap. Furthermore, previous studies have mostly concentrated on the cognitive aspect of students' learning outcomes, ignoring the affective and psychomotor dimensions, creating key knowledge gaps. Bridging these gaps, this predictive correlational study was conducted to understand how cultural capital, parental involvement (family inputs), support for schools, security network and school reforms (community inputs) jointly and partially predict students' overall, cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning outcomes in the context of Calabar Education Zone, Nigeria. A random sample of principals (n = 78) and students (n = 915) recruited through a multistage approach, participated in the study. Data were collected through the physical administration of three sets of questionnaires designed by the researchers. The psychometric properties of the questionnaires (such as validity, dimensionality, reliability and goodness of fit) were all analysed and found acceptable based on pilot data. Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 27 and AMOS version 26 software. Results from the main study proved, among others, that family inputs (family social capital and parental involvement) jointly and individually had a significant contribution to students' overall, cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning outcomes. Similarly, community inputs (support for school, security network and school reforms) have significant composite and partial contributions to students' overall, cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning outcomes in public secondary schools. This result implies that parents and host community leaders must strengthen their partnerships with secondary schools and contribute their quota to institutions' curricular and co-curricular activities.