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    Home and School Factors as Determinants of Students’ Conduct in Colleges of Education in Southwest, Nigeria
    (Lead City University, Ibadan, 2024-12) Amidu Kolawole AJAYI
    This study investigated home and school factors as determinants of students' conduct in colleges of education in southwest, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was used. The sample size for this study was 1254 and purposive sampling technique was used to select 15 colleges of education and 200 level Social Studies Students in Southwest, Nigeria. The research instrument used was a self-structured questionnaire tagged “Home and School Factors on Students’ Conduct Questionnaire (HSFSCQ)”, with reliability value of 0.82. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics of simple frequency count, percentages and mean value for the demographic data and research questions. For the hypotheses, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC), Multiple Regression, General Linear Modelling (GLM) of Multivariate and Univariate were used and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that the level of students’ compliance to both academic and moral conduct was low (x = 2.177; x = 2.476) respectively. All home factors and school factors were dominant in determining students’ ethical conduct except family size and parental social status (x =2.431; x =2.352) respectively. Home factors exhibit significant positive correlations with both academic and moral conducts (r = 0.247, p < 0.01;r = 0.312, p < 0.01) respectively and school factors (r = 0.214, p < 0.01; r = 0.465, p < 0.01) respectively. Home and school factors had combined significant influence on students’conduct (F = 119.185, P < 0.000). home factors had relative influence on students’ academic and moral conduct respectively (F = 46.780, P < 0.01; F = 73.535, P < 0.01), also, school factors had significant influence on students’ academic and moral conduct (F = 18.553, P < 0.01; F = 100.326, P < 0.01 ) respectively. However, religion had positive influence on the interaction effect of home factors and students’ conduct (F = 40.151, P < 0.000), as well as school factors and students’ conduct (F = 43.985, P < 0.000). This study concluded that interconnected influences on students' conduct; including home and school factors and religious affiliation contribute to students’ moral and academic conduct, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to address conduct related issues in colleges of education in Southwest, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended that a stable connection should be developed between teachers and students for good ethical behaviour, school authority should develop standard disciplinary measures and safety regulations for sudents’ conduct and strong collaborative platform between home and school should be created for cooperative decision making and problem solving to ensure ethical students’ conduct. Keywords: Students’ Conduct, Academic Conduct, Moral Conduct, Home Factor, School Factor Word Count: 300