ABSTRACT
This study investigated the influence of gender, parents? educational qualifications and occupationon performance of Business Studies students in Kaduna and Kano states, Nigeria. From the general objective, four specific objectives, four research questions were stated to guide the study and four null hypotheses were formulated and tasted at 0.05 level of significance. This study made use of Survey Research Design. The population comprised of 121,221and out of these384 JSS 3 students were randomly selected. Questionnaire and documented students? academic performance were the instruments used to collect date. The descriptive statistics involving frequency and percentages were used to present the responses on demographic variables. The questions were answered using mean and the cumulative mean was compared with the decision mean of 2.5, in order to determine if their responses were in agreement or disagreement with the research question. The findings of the study showed among others, that; (a) gender does not influence academic performance of Business Studies students because equal opportunities were given to boys and girls to study this subject. (b)Parents? educational qualifications have influence on the Business Studies students? academic performance in Kaduna and Kano states.From the findings of this study, it was concluded that parents? high level of education encouraged independent and hard work and this influenced the academic performance of students in Business Studies in Kaduna and Kano states, among other conclusions. Based on the findings and conclusionsof this study, it was recommended among others, that; (a)school managements during Parents? Teachers? Association meetings and admission processes should encourage parents who have low education to complement their children education by hiring additional lesson teachers for them at home