Comparative Analysis of Gender Performance of Mathematics Students Enrolled for Senior Secondary Certificate Examination between 2013 to 2018 in Abuja Metropolis.

Abstract

This study comparatively analyzed the gender performance of Mathematics students enrolled for Senior Secondary Certificate Examination from 2013-2018 in Abuja Metropolis during MDGs and SDGs period. The study used ex-post-facto research design and employed a secondary data using existing records review. The SSCE Mathematics examination results for 5,453students comprised 2,639 male and 2,814 female students who sat for SSCE mock examinations from 2013-2018 were collected from Education Resource Centre (ERC) and the schools selected for the study from Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in Abuja Metropolis. The research questions were answered using descriptive statistics such as percentage and frequency counts and the null hypotheses was tested using Chi-square. The results revealed among others, progressive and stable increased in the enrolment rate for male and female students during the MDGs and SDGs periods and the performance of male and female students in MDGs period were better than the performance in SDGs period. It is therefore, recommended among others that the present programme that sustained the increased in the current enrolment rate of both gender should be sustained and extents to other states in Nigeria.