THE EFFECTIVE READING HABIT: A PRACTICE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

  • ABUBAKAR MUHAMMAD LAWAL Department of Educational Foundations and Curriculum, Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Keywords: Covid-19, pandemic, MERS, SARS, effective reading habit

Abstract

Many schools at different levels of education including Secondary schools worldwide were suspended classroom teaching due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and switched to online teaching. In most developing countries, physical learning is faced with a number of challenges part of which is inadequate facilities of instruction. Switching to online teaching and learning in these countries is likely to face challenges such as; lack of background knowledge of online teaching by teachers and learning by students, inadequate ICT facilities, poor electricity supply, the poor network for connection, constraints in purchasing data, etc. These challenges affect students of secondary schools in Nigeria thereby making them stayed without learning online and subsequently affect their performance. Now that the schools were reopened, it was opined that the students should imbibe effective reading habits to improve their academic performance. To support this, it was recommended that students/parents/schools should make available the required reference materials and time of extra reading among others.

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Published
2021-10-28
How to Cite
LAWAL, A. M. (2021). THE EFFECTIVE READING HABIT: A PRACTICE TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC. GPH-International Journal of Educational Research, 4(10), 01-07. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6849762