CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents the population, sampling procedure, instruments used, validity of
the instruments used, administration of questionnaires and method of data analysis.

3.1 Study Area

The research area covered was the geographical expression known as osogbo LGA of osun
State, located in the south western of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Osogbo the capital of
Osun lies on coordinates 7°46′ North 4°34′East with an area of 47kmsq. Osogbo city seats the
Headquarters of both Osogbo Local Government Area (situated at Oke Baale Area of the city)
and Olorunda Local Government Area (situated at Igbonna Area of the city). It is some 88
kilometers by road northeast of Ibadan. It is also 108 kilometres by road south of Ilorin(kwara
state) and 108 kilometres northwest of Akure. Osogbo shares boundaries with Ikirun, Ilesa, Ede,
Egbedore, Ogbomosho and Iragbiji and is easily accessible from any part of the state because of
its central nature. It is about 48 km from Ife, 32 km from Ilesa, 46 km from Iwo, 48 km from Ikire
and 46 km from Ila-Orangun; The city had a population of about 771,515 people and an
approximate land area of 2875 km2, the postal code of the area is 230. There are Two ( 2 )local
government in osogbo.
The target population was among school adolescent from four government school in osogbo
LGA of osun state.

3.2 Advocacy and community entry

To enter the community,the Researcher follow the community entry process which is;
1) collect information and map out the community
2)Conduct a stake Holder analysis
3) Interact with key stakeholder identified
The community entry process helps in observing and establishing protocol as well as assisting in
meeting project objective and to gain support.it ensure the objective of the research are achieve.

3.3 Population of the Study

The population for this study consists of all selected secondary school adolescent in JSS2,
JSS3 and SS1 classes of osogbo Local Government within Osun State. About 150 students of 4
selected schools in osogbo area of osogbo LGA were selected.

3.4 Research Design

The researcher utilizes descriptive research method which is found suitable for this
research work due to the fact that survey would be carried out among school adolescent in
selected secondary school students in JSS2, JSS3 and SS1 classes. The study is majorly
descriptive as it assesses the perceived benefit of sexuality education (FLHE) on the sexual
behavior of the selected secondary school students. This study was done by administering
questionnaires to students who have been taught some aspects of the FLHE curriculum to
determine the benefit on their sexual behavior.
Previous studies were majorly carried out on public secondary schools.

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This study assesses for students of selected schools who have had some experience of the FLHE
curriculum. The knowledge of the students with regards to their sexual and reproductive health is
also assessed.

3.5 Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria are the attribute of subject that are essential for their selection to
participate
1) age from 14-20 inclusive
2)ability to speak and read English correctly to contribute to the data collection required for the
research
3) capable of providing inform concept
4) quantitative study with students
5) surveys
6) quantitative questionnaire study
7) All ethnic groups

3.6 Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria are the responses of subject that require their removal as subject
1) peer reviewed journals
2) Grounded theory
3) Quantitative study with teachers
4) frequent alcohol or recreation drug use
5) Any serious medical or psychological disorder likely to preclude completion of the trier

3.7 Sample and Sampling Techniques

This study was limited to 4 randomly selected secondary schools in osogbo area of
osogbo LGA of osun state The purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting students.
The secondary schools were randomly selected from schools scattered around the osogbo area.
The schools were: Thus the sample of this study consisted of 150 students randomly selected
from JSS2, JSS3 and SS1 classes from the selected schools.

3.8 Research Instrument

The instrument for this study was structured questionnaire. This was chosen because it is
easily used for quantitative data analysis. It is very efficient when properly constructed for
drawing conclusions on posed research questions and analysis. Only a set of questionnaire were
designed to get response from the students. The questionnaires were divided into 2 parts.
Part A consisted of personal data of the respondents while
Part B was used to assess the perceived impact of early sexuality education (FLHE) of
selected secondary school students. Rating scales are utilized for the part B of the questionnaire.

3.8.1 Validity and Reliability of the instrument

Experts in educational research were consulted to check the validity and the reliability of
the questionnaire constructed before the final approval by my research supervisor. The experts
examined the clarity and appropriateness of the questionnaire items to ascertain whether they
aligned with the objective of the study. The modifications and corrections made by these experts
were put into the final production of the instrument for data collection for the study.

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3.8.2 Pretesting of the instrument
The Researcher had tried out the instrument to class jss2,Jss3 and ss1
A pretest was given at the first meeting with the principals and the class teacher before given
questionaire.the pretest was conducted to know how far the students respond to the research
question. The pretest was conducted on February 27th 2023

3.9 Data collection

Some of the questionnaires were administered personally while the others were
administered by proxy after permission was sought from the selected school principals and class
teachers. In this research,the Researcher uses structure questionaire as data collecting method
and also the instrument .The questions were set as explicitly as possible for easy response by the
students taking into cognizance of their mental ability.

3.10 Method of Data Analysis

Copies of the questionnaire that were returned was properly cross checked for completeness
of information. The collected data were analyzed using statistical method of percentage. The
questions in each group are related, so the group that have items with high level of agreements or
disagreements are definitely going to be pointers to the perceived benefit of early sexuality
education (FLHE). The level of agreement of each respondent with the items in the questionnaire
was collected to determine their frequencies and percentages of each frequency.

3.11 Data processing and analysis

The results of the data will be the data(pre-test) to know whether there are any significant
student response before and after.the researcher analysis the collected data by quantitative.in this
research,the Researcher used quantitative data analysis technique.the quantitative data was
analysed by using statistical method. This techniques of data analysis belonged to quantitative
data analysis.

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