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摘要
本研究的主要目的是检验道德堕落作为库马西大都会一些选定的高中学生学习成绩的潜在预测因子。本研究采用描述性调查设计。样本的选择采用了目的抽样、比例抽样和简单随机抽样的多阶段抽样程序。共有338名受访者来自库马西大都会的三所高中。采用探索性因子分析对仪器进行验证,并采用简单线性回归对假设进行检验。经主成分分析(PCA), Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin检验结果为0.636,超过推荐值0.6,Bartlett球度检验达到统计学显著性(χ2(78) =360.171, p = 0.000),支持相关矩阵的因子性。对模式结构和通用性结果进行了检验。在模式矩阵上加载低于0.30的项目以及未旋转的项目加载被删除。分析结果显示,有两个项目的因子负荷低于0.30。因此,这些物品被丢弃。剩下的11项因为都在0.30以上而被保留。结果再次表明,道德堕落并不是库马西大都会学生学习成绩的潜在预测因素,B = -。395, SE = 0.299, t = -1.322, BootCI(-。984, .193)(见表5)。这一结果表明,在学校没有表现出道德堕落的学生有更高的机会获得更高的学习成绩。该研究建议教育主管和校长需要加强对高中学生的咨询服务。这对于防止国家在不久的将来失去大部分人力的情况大有帮助,因为道德堕落可能迫使一些学生辍学和吸毒。
Moral Decadence as a Potential Predictor of Students Academic Performance in Some Selected Senior High Schools in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana
The main objective of the study was to examine the moral decadence as a potential predictor of students’ academic performance in some selected senior high schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. A multistage sampling procedures namely purposive sampling, proportional sampling and simple random sampling procedures were used in the selection of the sample. A total of 338 respondents were drawn from three senior high schools in the Kumasi Metropolis. Exploratory factor analysis was done to validate the instrument as well as simple linear regression was used to test the hypothesis. Through principal component analysis (PCA), the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin yielded a value of .636, exceeding the recommended value of .6 and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity reached statistical significance χ2(78) =360.171, p = .000), supporting the factorability of the correlation matrix. The pattern structure and the commonalities results were both inspected. Items that had loadings below 0.30 on the pattern matrix as well as the unrotated loadings of the items were deleted. The outcome of the analysis showed that two items had factor loadings below 0.30. Therefore, those items were discarded. The remaining eleven items were retained because they were all above 0.30. The results again, revealed that moral decadence was not a potential predictor of student academic performance in the Kumasi Metropolis, B = -.395, SE = .299, t = -1.322, BootCI (-.984, .193) (see Table 5). This outcome suggests that students who do not exhibit moral decadence in their schools would have higher chances of experiencing higher academic performance. The study recommends that educational directorates and head teachers need to strengthen counseling services for students in senior high schools. This may go a long way to prevent a situation whereby the country could lose most of its manpower in the near future, as moral decadence could compel some of the students to become dropouts and drug addicts.