COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHEIVEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS

ABSTARCT The study examined the academic performance of student in public and private junior secondary schools in english language education in kano state. The study was carried out with objectives to compare the academic performance of students in English language between public and private junior secondary schools in kano state, compare the academic performance of male and female students in English language in public junior secondary school in kano state and compare the academic performance of male and female students in private junior schoolsin english language education in kano state. The study adaptd expo facto research design and the total of five hundred students, which comprise two fifty from public jss and five hundres from private jss were samped for the study. Data result was collected from the sample schools through the assistance of principals and examination officer. The data collected for the study were subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analyses, frequency count and simple percentages were used to answer research questions whil research hyphoteses were tested using chi- square at 0.05 level of significance. Findings among others showed tht there was a significant diffenence in the academic performance of students in English Langiage in public and private junior secondary school inkano. Finding also revealed that there was significance difference in the student performance of male and female students in English language in public and private junior secondary schools in kano state.based on the findings, recommendations were made that: the public schools must be adequate staffed, enough furnitures provided and schools regulary inspected, guidance and counselling should beestablished in malepublic junior secondary schools, so that the academic problems of male student could be found and solve, there is need for stakeholders including the federal ,state and local government and private sectors to intensify efforts on how to maintain good academic standard in schools through comparison of resultsin order to boost their academic performance