Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study examined influence of school violence on academic performance among secondary schools students in Nasarawa State: Implications for counselling. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated and tested for the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design. 250 Teachers and 20 Principals representing 15% of the total Population was sampled from Northern senatorial district using simple random sampling technique. The structured questionnaire developed by the researcher was used to collect data. The instrument was validated by experts and a reliability ‘r’ coefficient of 0.82 was obtained. Mean, standard deviation and chi-square was used to analyze the data collected in the study. The major finding revealed that violence has effects on secondary schools students’ academic performance. Based on the findings of the study, it was concluded that there is significant influence of violence on secondary school students’ academic performance and there is significant influence of guidance and counselling on secondary school students academic performance. Thus, it was recommended that Guidance counsellors should set up a mechanism for settling violence in schools such as inculcating positive attitude to students by encouraging them to engage in interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships with both the students and teachers. This is to maintain peace and safety environment for students and teachers.