ASSESSING THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION (UBE) SCHEME IN ADVANCING GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION IN BAYELSA STATE
Authors: Godspower Ayalla Ebikeme, Bridget Amakiri Tariere
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17413913
Published: October 2025
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<p><em>The purpose of this research was to assess the impact of Bayelsa State's free and obligatory UBE program on the academic achievement of female students. The study made use of a correlational survey design for its investigation. Four thousand four hundred forty-five female students from the Ogbia, Sagbama, and Southern Ijaw school zones in Bayelsa participated in the research. Using a proportional stratified random selection procedure, 540 female students, or 12% of the overall population, were chosen to participate in the research. The UBEEDGQ, or Universal Basic Education and Educational Development of the Girl-Child Questionnaire, was the tool utilised for data collection. The study's supervisor and two measurement and assessment specialists from Niger Delta University's educational foundations department checked the instrument's validity. By using the test-retest procedure, we were able to confirm that the instrument's internal stability was reliable. Furthermore, the PPMC was utilized to determine the reliability coefficient which stood at .884. The data were analyzed with the application of model summary of simple regression analysis and simple regression analysis for the research question and hypothesis respectively with the support of the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 26. The study concludes that free and compulsory UBE programme has significant relationship with on the educational development of girl-child in schools. The study equally recommended that government should establish Basic Schools in all the villages in the state and make it free and compulsory in order to increase pupils’ access to education and girl-child enrolment </em></p>
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