International Research Journal of Education and Technology

The central purpose of the study was to examine sex education and gender-based violence among primary school pupils in Calabar South Local Government area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The study adopted the Ex post facto design and a population of 3,402 was used in the study (1,986 males and 1,416 females).The study adopts the stratified random sampling technique and the sample comprises 335 respondents, representing 20% of primary six pupils drawn from the population of students in the study area. This study’s instrument was aresearchers’ self-developed questionnaire titled “Sex Education and Gender-Based Violence Questionnaire (SEGBVQ)” which was validated by experts’ scrutiny in Educational Measurement and Evaluation of the items in the questionnaire. To ascertain the instruments’ reliability, it was pilot tested using 40 pupils selected from schools that were not part of the main stud and the Cronbach alpha reliability method of internal consistency was used to determine the consistency of the test instrument. The results of the analysis formed the reliability estimates for the instrument which range from .74 and .86. Data for the study was analysedusing descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions the independent t-test analysis was used to test the stated hypotheses and the findings revealed that there is no significant influence of school support, home supportandreligious support gender-based violence among primary school pupils. It was recommended among others that sexeducation should also be incorporated into the school curriculum for in-depth knowledge.

Keywords: Sex, Education, Gender-Based and Violence