Survey on Causes of Students Mass Failure in Mathematics Senior School Certificate Examination in Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract

The research examined the mass failure of student in SSCE mathematics as viewed by students and
teachers in yobe state based on four factors namely; government cause, student cause, teachers cause and
parental cause. Radom sampling techniques were used to select 500 respondents from 20 publics secondary
schools in which 400 students and 100 teachers are used for the purposed of these researched from all the
three zone of the yobe state, Nigeria. Statistical package for social science was used to analyse the mean of
the respondents. Finding of these research revealed that Government have immensely contribute to the
cause of mass failure of Mathematics which include insufficient number of teachers and qualified teachers
in mathematics, lack of teaching instructional materials and over use of old curriculum. finding also shows
that student, teacher and parents contribute to the cause of mass failure of students in Mathematics. Finally,
the study recommends that governments should provide adequate funding of schools and employed
qualified teachers, Students should develop interest in learning of mathematics, teacher should adopt more
practical and modern techniques in method of teaching and parent should monitor all academic activity of
the students at home.