EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS DETERMINANT OF BIOLOGY ACHIEVEMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDEN IS IN AG A IE, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Abstract The study attempted to find out whether Emotional Intelligence can determine Secondary School students' academic achievement. Two research questions and /mi > corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. Correlational research design was employed. Instruments used are the researcher’s designed Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EIQ) for data collection and SSII Biology Students' achievement test result was used as criterion or dependent variable. The Questionnaire was validated by experts and the reliability coefficient of 0.78 was obtained. Sample size of the study comprised of two hundred and fifty (250) SSII Biology students. Hypothesis one was tested using Linear Regression while hypothesis two was tested using Kendall's Tau B statistical tools. The result obtained showed that students with high emotional intelligence had higher academic achievement scores than those with low emotional intelligence indicating that emotional intelligence is a determinant of secondary school students' academic achievement. It is recommended that emotional intelligence should included in curriculum of Nigerian secondary schools and also that, parents should pay more attention to the development of emotional intelligence of their children right from the family level especially the male children.