Volume 14, 2025
Impact of Social and Academic Skills of Pre-Primary School Children for Scaling Up Childhood Education in Pankshin Local Government: The Stakeholder's Roles
Juliana Musa, RIKE
Abstract
This research therefore examines the impact of social and academic skills development of pre-primary school
children for scaling up the status of childhood education in Pankshin Local Government Area. The study
adopted a descriptive survey design. This study employed an interactive model data analysis included: data
validating, data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The population of the study
were all the teachers of pre-primary schools in Pankshin LGA numbering 750 comprising class helps, head
teachers and parents. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw 750 teachers from the 48 public
primary schools. 1-30 item questionnaire titled 'Teachers' Classroom social and academic skills development
questionnaire (TCSACDQ) was developed by the researcher and used to obtain relevant data from respondents.
Three research questions guided the study. The instrument yielded reliability co-efcient of 0.86. Cronbach
Alpha method. The results showed that the instrument was reliable. The data was analyzed using mean scores
and standard deviation. Any item with a mean score of 2.50 and above was accepted value while items with a
mean rating below were not accepted value. It was discovered that: the cooperation aspect, children may
collaborate well; the assertion aspect, children may get along with new friends and communicate with others;
the responsibility aspect, children understand their role and responsibility to guide themselves, others, and
society; the empathy aspect, children may feel others' feeling and problem; the self-control aspect, children can
control their mental state so that they can avoid anger and bad inuences in order to scale up early childhood
development and education in Nigeria for qualitative acquisition of skills and sustainability. Based on these
ndings, recommendations were made.
Keywords
Social, Academic Skills, Pre-primary Schools, Stakeholders
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