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The Influence Of Teachers’ Professional Development On Students’ Academic Performances
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1.7 Scope and limitations of the Study
The study was carried out in order to find out the relationship which exists between teachers’ professional development and students’ academic performances in Ijumu Secondary Schools. The scope of the research is limited to all Secondary Schools in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State. However, out of thirty secondary schools in Ijumu local government Area, fifteen schools would be randomly selected a sample schools.
1.8 Definition of Relevant Terms
There are some numbers of torts used in explanation of some statement in the work. The terms are regarded as the language used by the researcher when explaining certain things such terms includes the following
Professional Development:-is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning opportunities situated in practice.
Academic performance:- is the outcome that indicates the extent to which a person has accomplished specific goals that were the focus of activities in instructional environments, specifically in school, college, and university.
Academic performance:-it is the outcomes of education the extent to which a students’ teacher or institution has achieved their educational goals.
Method of teaching:- refers to the principles and methods used by the teacher for instruction while teaching.
Teacher Competency:- refers to the way teacher displayed good knowledge of subject matter, adequately involve students to participate while teaching as well as using clear language in teaching.
Teacher Experience:- it is the recount of numerous highs and lows the teachers have in his teaching career. These are the days when great success is achieved and days when he had little or no success in his teaching. Teacher experience refers to all the work activities from which teacher gather knowledge, opinions and skills.
Teacher’s qualification:-it is a number of academic and professional degree or certificate that enables a person to become a registered teacher. Examples of teaching qualification include the postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) the professional graduate Diploma in education (PGDE), the bachelor of education and National certificate of education (NCE).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACTThis work focused on Influence of Teachers’ Professional Development on Students’ Academic Performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi State.The study was a descriptive a survey of correlation type. Two set of instruments were designed to collect data. The first instrument was titled: “Teacher’s Profession Questionnaire (TPQ) and “Students’ Academic Performance†(SAP). The target population for this study consist 15 secondary school in ijumu ... Continue reading---
QUESTIONNAIRE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]SECTION APersonal Information(Please tick where appropriate)1. Name of school ____________________________________________ 2. Sex Male ( ) Female ( )3. Marital status: single ( ) married ( ) 4. Age: 26-30( ) 31-35( ) 36-40 ( )41-45 ( ) 46-50 ( )51 and above ( )5. Position Held: H O D( )Subject teacher ( ),Class teacher ( ), Supervisor( )6. Years of experience in teaching (0-5 years) (5-10 years) (11-15 ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER TWO - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]A Professional teaching qualification does not make you a professional,
in the true sense of the world. Belonging to a particular profession
does not automatically guarantee that the service you provide is a
professional one. Hence teaching as a professional is a hard thing to do
because it encompasses many roles to be done well. Higher status and
recognition arise in educational standard. Since teachers are the key
determinants of educational standard, the improvement in the condu ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER THREE3.0 RESEARCH METHODLOGY This chapter describes the methods to elicit necessary information from the respondents and collect the appropriate data for testing the hypotheses. The presentation is organized under the following sub-heading:Research Design;Population of the study Sample and Sampling TechniquesResearch InstrumentsValidity and Reliability of the InstrumentsProcedure for Data Collection Method of Data Analysis3.1 Research Design This is ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 6 ]Hypotheses testing There are one main and four operational hypotheses set to guide the study. Pearson product-moment correlation statistic was used to test all the hypotheses at 0.05 of significance level.Main hypothesisHo: There is no significance relationship between teacher profession development and students’ academic performances in secondary schools in Kogi stateTable 7 shows that the p-value (0.003) is less than the significance level (0.05) for 292 degree of freedom. Therefo ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]DiscussionThis section gives detailed explanation of the findings from the hypotheses tested. The result of the hypothesis which stated that there isno significant relationship between teacher profession and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state shows that there is low, positive significant relationship between teacher’s profession and students’ academic performance in IjumuSecondary Schools, Kogi state. The result is in line with the opinion ... Continue reading---
