Perceived Influence of Teacher Related Variables on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State

Abstract

This study focused on the Perceived Influence of Teacher Related Variables on Students’ Academic Performance in Senior Secondary Schools in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Two specific purposes and two research questions guided the study. Related literature was reviewed which served as a guide to the research on what has already been studied by other researchers in the related areas of the study. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised two hundred and six teachers in the selected senior secondary schools in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State . The sample size for this study comprised two hundred and six senior secondary school teachers in Abakaliki LGA of Ebonyi State. No sampling technique was used due to the manageable size of the population. The instrument for data collection was structured questionnaire tagged “Perceived Influence of Teachers Related Variables on Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire” (PITRVSPQ). The instrument was face validated by three experts, two from the Department of Educational Foundations and one expert from Measurement and Evaluation unit of Science Education, all of Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. The overall reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.85. The internal consistency of each subscale of the instrument was computed separately. The data collected for the study were analyzed using mean(x) and standard deviation (SD) to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the high hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that: teachers’ qualifications and teachers’ teaching experience influences secondary school students’ academic performance in Abakaliki LGA Ebonyi State. Based on the findings the study recommended that: Secondary Education Board (SEB) should always recruit teachers based on subject qualifications for improvement in the area of subjects specialization and that Secondary Education Board (SEB) should always organize in-service training for teachers in order to enhance their teaching methods with the new trend in their field of study.