Abstract
This study aimed to assess the classroom behavior of grade 4 - 6 learners in Abaga Integrated School. It also sought to determine the effect of learners’ classroom behavior to their academic performance. The researcher used descriptive-correlation research design to describe the classroom behavior of learners towards their classmates, classroom activities and teachers and person in authority and its correlation to the academic performance of the learners. Respondents were 44 grade 4 learners, 42 grade 5 learners, and 30 grade 6 learners. Findings revealed that the classroom behavior of the learners towards their classmates were often demonstrated positive behavior and sometimes for the negative behavior. The same findings to the learners’ behavior towards their classroom activities and towards their teachers and person in authority. Regression analysis revealed that there was no significant relationship between learners’ academic performance and classroom behavior towards classmates, teachers and person in authority. But there was a significant relationship between academic performance and the classroom behavior towards classroom activities. It was further revealed that there was no significant relationship between the demographic profile of the respondents and their academic performance. There was also no significant difference in the classroom behavior of the respondents towards classmates and schoolmates, classroom activities, teachers and person in authority when grouped according to their demographic profile in terms of age, sex, and grade level.
