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Abstract

This research work was carried out specially to investigate the relationship between student ‎discipline and academic achievement in senior secondary schools in Akko local government of ‎Gombe state. This study adopts the survey research design. The total population of this study ‎constitutes eight hundred (800) students in the selected senior secondary schools in Akko local ‎government council of Gombe state. The simple random technique was adopted to select from ‎the classes and this was done by balloting, there the total sample size for all the four schools ‎are two hundred (200) in number. The instrument used in collecting data for this study is a ‎formal questionnaire which was constructed by the researchers. The instrument was validated ‎by expect, while the reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha method. The method ‎employed in the analysis of the data collected is Pearson product moment correlation ‎coefficient. The research findings also revealed that there is significant relationship between ‎student discipline and academic achievement in senior secondary schools of Akko local ‎government. The following recommendations were put forward as a corrective measure that ‎school authority with the help of the ministry of education should organize a workshop on the ‎impact of discipline to academic achievement‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.