INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS’ CHARACTERISTICS ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN CIVIC EDUCATION IN NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Teachers’ characteristics, Teachers’ qualification, Teachers’ experience, Academic achievementAbstract
The study investigated influence of teachers’ characteristics on the academic performance of secondary school students’ in Nasarawa State. Two research questions with their corresponding hypotheses guided the study. The study used descriptive survey design. The population consist of 30,069 secondary school students. The sample size for the investigation consists of 377 students as respondents obtained through simple random sampling technique. The researcher developed an instrument title Civic Education Achievement Test (CEAT). The instrument was validated and had a validity index of 0.79 and a reliability index of 0.81 using KR-20 method of estimating reliability. Descriptive statistics was used to provide answers to the research questions while ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level significance. All analysis was done using Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). Findings revealed that there is significant influence of teachers’ qualification on students’ academic achievement in civic education, there is significant influence of teachers’ experience on students’ academic achievement in civic education. The study recommended that teachers with lower qualifications like NCE and those without professional qualifications should be encouraged to further their studies for effective teaching and learning.
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