Open AccessAGE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE PRE-DEGREE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOKOTO
Author(s) -
Faruk Aliyu Kalgo
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
sokoto educational review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2630-7197
pISSN - 2636-5367
DOI - 10.35386/ser.v1i1.2
Subject(s) - degree (music) , psychology , mathematics education , medicine , demography , medical education , sociology , physics , acoustics
Age is one of the criteria being used by the University of Sokoto for admission into its pre-degree programmes. This research was conducted to find out the influence of age on the academic performance of the pre-degree students. Students’ age and aggregate of their scores on pre-degree examinations were used. Students, 17-19 years were considered ‘younger’ while 20 years and above were considered ‘older’. A total of 360 pre-degree out of 509 students were used. Analysis of variance carried out revealed that younger students performed significantly better than older students in three of the four cases.