Performance of Sokoto State Junior Secondary School Students III in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Mathematics from 2007-2017

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This study examined the Performance of Sokoto State Junior Secondary School Students III in Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in Mathematics from 2007-2017. The design was Ex-po factor design. All Sokoto State Junior Secondary Schools JSS III students in the 2007-2017 academic session with fifty one thousand and twenty four students (51,024); with twenty thousand two hundred and fifty nine (20,259) boys and thirty thousand seven hundred and sixty five (30,765) girls formed the target population of the study. The study examines the Poor Performance of Sokoto State Junior Secondary School Students III in Basic Education Certificate Examination in Mathematics from 2007-2017. This study was guided by one objective. The findings of this study indicated that in the following years there were poor performance of students in mathematics, these include 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2013 respectively. and in the years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 students’ performance was improved compeer to the previous years. Based on the findings of the study the researcher recommends that 1. Government should recruit qualify teachers to teach mathematics 2. Government should provide conducive learning environment for the teaching of mathematics 3. Proper supervision and constant monitoring should be put in place to insure proper deliberation.

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