Perception of Parents, Teachers and Students on Impact of Insurgency on School Dropout among Secondary School Students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria
*1Gambo Adamu Aliyu, 2Maijidda Ma’aji, & 3Rakiya Rabeh Musa
*1Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Federal University Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria. Email: gamboadmualiyu@gmail.com
2Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Education, Email: maijiddamaajimusa79@gmail.com
3Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Education
Cite this as: Aliyu, G. A., Ma’aji, M., & Musa, R. R. (2026). Perception of Parents, Teachers and Students on Impact of Insurgency on School Dropout among Secondary School Students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. Rima International Journal of Education, 5(1), 167—180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.65760/rijessu.v5.1.12
Abstract
The study examined the perception of parents, teachers and students on impact of insurgency on school dropout among secondary school students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. Three (3) research questions with their corresponding objectives and three (3) hypotheses were generated to guide the study. The study adopted cross-sectional survey research design. The population of the study comprised 369,797 (202,720 students, 14,562 teachers and 152,515 parents) from 696 public secondary schools in three states in the North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select the respondents from the three states. The sample size of the study consists of 6117 respondents. The instrument for data collection was a self-developed questionnaire titled Perception of Parents, Teachers and Students on Impact of Insurgency on Secondary School Students’ Attainment Questionnaire (PPTSIISSSQ). The questionnaire yielded 0.68 as the validity index and 0.75 as reliability index. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while the independent t- test statistics was used to test all the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant impact of insurgency on school dropout among secondary school students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria. The study concluded that there is increased rate of dropout, among secondary school students in North East Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria as a result of insurgency. The study recommended that since the insurgency has increased the rate of school dropout among senior secondary school students in North East Geo-Political Zone, the Federal Government of Nigeria should seek technical assistance from foreign countries such as the USA, Israel, among others to train the country’s security agents how to curbed insurgency so that school dropout will be reduced.
Keywords
Insurgency, School dropout, Parent, Teachers, students
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