EFFECT OF EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND ON STUDENT SUCCESS DURING WEEDING EXAMINATION AT COLLEGE OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY GOMBE, GOMBE STATE

Abstract

The research work was written on the effect of educational background as a key to student success during weeding examination at College of Nursing and Midwifery Gombe, Gombe State. The objective of the study was to explore the place of Formal education, informal education, and learning opportunity on student’s success during weeding examination and the research hypothesis stated there is significant difference between the formal education, informal education and learning opportunities received by student and their success during weeding examination at College of Nursing and Midwifery Gombe. In this study a quantitative research design was chosen, and the method used was a descriptive survey. The target population was first year students, and 60 students were used as sample. 60 Questionnaires were distributed to the subject, 54 were retrieved and one-way analysis of variance was employed for data analysis. The findings indicated that formal education does not have effect on student success during weeding examination with significant values of 0.79. Also, learning opportunity does not have significant effect on student success during weeding examination with significant value of 0.386, but informal education has significant effect on student success during weeding examination with significant value of 0.028 as demonstrated by one-way ANOVA with 95% confidence interval. The researcher recommends that; First year student nurses and midwives should engage in extracurricular activities and lecturer should do their best to identify the weaker students and give them more support for them to succeed during the weeding examination.