Survey On Causes of Mass Failure in Senior School Certificate English Examinations from The Perspective of Teachers and Students in Yobe State

Abstract

The research examined the mass failure of student in SSCE English Language 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 1000 respondents from 20 publics and
20 private secondary schools in which 800 students and 200 teachers were used for the purpose of this
research from all the three zone of the Yobe state, Nigeria. Statistical package for social science was used
to analyse the means of the respondents. Findings of this research revealed that Government and schools
preparatory have immensely contribute to the cause of mass failure of which include insufficient number
of teachers and qualified teachers in English, lack of teaching instructional materials and over use of old
curriculum. findings also show that student, teacher and parents contribute to the cause of mass failure of
students in English language.
Finally, the study recommends that government and schools preparatory should provide adequate funding
of schools and employ qualified teachers, Students should develop interest in learning of English language,
teacher should adopt more practical and modern techniques in method of teaching and parent should
monitor all academic activities of the students at home.