%0 Journal Article
%T Students¡¯ Entry Qualification and Academic Performance in Basic Schools of Nursing in Enugu State between 1995 and 1999
%A Ngozi P. Ogbonnaya
%A Perpetua O. U. Okpuruka
%A Peace N. Iheanacho
%A Afam Ndu
%J Creative Education
%P 719-727
%@ 2151-4771
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ce.2014.510084
%X <span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;\">This study was a
descriptive study of the correlation type, carried out to find out the
relationship between entry qualification and academic performance in two basic schools
of nursing in Enugu State, South-East, Nigeria, between 1995 and 1999. The
study retrospectively examined the scores of a sample of 390 nursing students.
Data were O¡¯ level GCE/SSCE Grades, representing the entry qualification; and
the final pre-qualifying examination result scores, representing the final
academic performance collected from student records and analyzed based on the
formulated hypotheses. Pearson¡¯s product-moment Coefficient of Correlation and
t-test were used to compare performances. A positive correlation which was
statistically significant was found between entry qualifications and final
performance. One of the schools performed better than the other, while science-
based students performed better than non-science-based students. It was
recommended that relevant regulatory bodies should ensure that prospective
student nurses get credit passes in all the basic sciences as part of the
requirements for admission.</span> 
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%K Academic Performance
%K Entry Qualification
%K Schools of Nursing
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=46982