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The Influence Of Teachers’ Professional Development On Students’ Academic Performances
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2.5Concept of students’ academic performance
Academic performances mean how learners are able to deal with their studies and cope with, or accomplish different tasks. Academic performances could also mean students’ performances or learning outcome in a particular subject after conducting a test or an examination. Bamgbose and Owojaiye, (2008) academic ability (high, medium or low) of the students has found to play a major influence on the performances of students. It is noted that high ability students do perform better than low ability students. This is in line with the observation of Owaseye (2014) who stated that genders are not the issue but the academic ability. She affirmed that gender does not play any significant role. She stated that both male and female students of high ability to perform well, while low ability of male and female students perform woefully in their various subjects but, the low ability students perform a bit encouraging when they are taught by an experienced and qualify teachers.
Issues relating to students’ academic performances have enjoyed continuous publications since 1933. Johnson reported that since 1933, the importance of performances and progress in schools have been consistently emphasized. For example, Samder’s (1987) article, on this issue:“student’s academic achievement: a necessary tool for successful entry in to today‘s job market†reported an important study that provided some ideas on how to move towards improving academic performances.
Other articles, though varied in their perspectives, provide important information on achievement related to students’ academic performances. Their contributions include the ways school can provide vital academic and social support to the students learning in the classroom situations. Researchers have investigation what really constitutes students’ academic achievement, and they came up with many findings. For example, Gay (2009) found out that students’ academic achievement is very important in every educational institution, primary, secondary and tertiary. He added that student’ academic achievement is the result of assessment of students in all area of academic subjects, basic learning skills and intellectual development.
Furthermore, the level of academic skill necessary for successful entry into today’s job market, with or without a college of education, has risen to the point that a focus on achieving academic success in necessary for all students throughout their years of schooling from kindergarten to the university. Researchers have also established that parent who check the assignment given to their children every day and provide all the needed writing materials will produce highly successful children in academics. Conversely, non-challant attitude of parents towards the education of their children also encourage poor performances.
In Nigeria, the secondary school students’ academic performances is determined by examination bodies such as the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the National Examination Council (NECO), National Board for Technical Education (NABTEB) and the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI).students’ academic achievement has been described as the major determinant of school effectiveness.
Cotton (1983) also mentions that results of students’ examination influence school reputation and the number of new student that would apply for admission into the school. Glasser (1990) and Sergioranni (1987) concluded that students’ academic achievement is a full- proof of how the resource committed to teaching and learning has been utilized
2.6 Teachers’ attitude to the teaching profession and students’ academic performances in secondary schools.
A teacher is a person who undergoing approved professional training in education at appropriate levels capable of imparting knowledge, attitudes and skills to the learner while teaching is a systematic rational and organized process of transmitting knowledge, attitudes and skills in accordance with professional principles.
In order to achieve the aims, goals and specific instruction objectives of teaching, the teacher must plan for what to teach and how to teach it effectively. Teachers need to take into cognizance the differences in the students’ ability to learn. Some students learn slowly while other learns very fast. To put the teaching and learning in the right perspective, there is need to consider the method adopted in teaching each subject effectively (Owaseye, 2014).
There are many method and techniques of teaching. These methods include storytelling method, discovery method, lecture method, project method and discussion method. Discussion method is an organized, unique, logical related step-by-step procedure of teaching specific aspects of a subject or topic with the aim of achieves. These methods allowing the participants to put together their ideas and knowledge, it makes students to talk and evaluate themselves and also promote learning and understanding.
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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 ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]INTRODUCTION1.1 Background to the studyThe fact remains that education is the major reliable and portent for attainable growth and development in facets of human society. It is perhaps against this background that past and current education reforms in Nigeria emphasized the need to provide for every citizen. Nigeria as a developing nation seeking to become an active participant as well as a key play in the global community. Certainly must put in place, effective education system powered by ... 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---
