Students’ Entry Qualification and Academic Performance in Basic Schools of Nursing in Enugu State between 1995 and 1999
- 1 Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
- 2 University of Port Harcourt, Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
- 3 Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
- 4 School of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Federal Neuropsychaitric Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Abstract
This study was a descriptive study of the correlation type, carried out to find out the relationship between entry qualification and academic performance in two basic schools of nursing in Enugu State, South-East, Nigeria, between 1995 and 1999. The study retrospectively examined the scores of a sample of 390 nursing students. Data were O’ level GCE/SSCE Grades, representing the entry qualification; and the final pre-qualifying examination result scores, representing the final academic performance collected from student records and analyzed based on the formulated hypotheses. Pearson’s product-moment Coefficient of Correlation and t-test were used to compare performances. A positive correlation which was statistically significant was found between entry qualifications and final performance. One of the schools performed better than the other, while science- based students performed better than non-science-based students. It was recommended that relevant regulatory bodies should ensure that prospective student nurses get credit passes in all the basic sciences as part of the requirements for admission.
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