IMPACT OF TEACHERS’ QUALITY ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

ABSTRACT

This study determined the impact of teachers’ quality on student’s academic performance in public secondary schools in Delta State, Nigeria. The design was descriptive in nature and it involved 160 subject teachers, principal and vice principal in the selected secondary schools consisting of 128 subject teachers and 32 principal and vice principal from the 16 selected secondary schools (8 subject teachers, principal and vice principal = 10 from each school: 10 x 16 = 160).Questionnaires were used to collect data for the study. The questionnaire helped the researchers to have a wider view on the research problem One hypotheses were tested at the 0.05 level of significance using frequency count, simple percentage, deviation and chi-square. The results showed that the level of academic performance of public secondary school students in Delta State was moderate. It also showed that teachers  with Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) and Higher National Diploma (HND) with PGDE are highly qualified; teachers with Higher National Diploma (HND) and Ordinary National Diploma (OND) are under qualified while teachers with Nigeria certificate in Education (NCE) have minimum qualifications. The finding also revealed that male was more qualified than the female and teachers who were not qualified were more than those who were qualified and teachers who were from urban were also more than those who were from rural. It was concluded that there is a significant difference in the protection of school facilities among secondary schools in urban and rural areas. It can also be concluded that there is there is a relationship between adequacy of teachers and secondary school students’ academic performance.