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Influence of Social Status on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students with Disabilities in Kwara State

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education

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datasetpaper
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Flo
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Uni
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This study investigated the influence of social status on academic performance of secondary school students with disabilities in Kwara state.  The descriptive survey of a correlational type was adopted for this study. The population for the study comprised all secondary school students with disabilities in Kwara State, while 200 students with disabilities constituted a sample for the study. Social Peer Rejection Scale developed by Asher et al.’s (2001) was adapted for this study. The adapted scale was validated and has a reliability coefficient of 0.89. The data collected were analysed using percentage for demographic data and research questions while the two null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (PPMC). The results of the findings revealed that 87.0% (n=147) of the secondary school students with disabilities were social rejected and as a result, it has negative influence of the academic performance. The findings also showed that social acceptance influences academic performance of students with disabilities in Kwara State. Implications for counselling practice and recommendations were also made.

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Soninke

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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