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The Influence Of Teachers’ Professional Development On Students’ Academic Performances
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3.0 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 Techniques
Research Instruments
Validity and Reliability of the Instruments
Procedure for Data Collection
Method of Data Analysis
3.1 Research Design
This is a descriptive research for which the survey method would be used with of questionnaire. It is used by the researcher for the purpose of establishing the relationship which exists between teacher’s qualification and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools in Kogi state.
This method would be used to obtain relevant information or data from representation sample of a particular population of some schools in Ijumu local government with a view of generating view about the entire schools, using the data collect through questionnaire administered to those area and subjects.
3.2 Population, Sample and Techniques
The target population for this study would consist of the entire 30 secondary schools in Ijumu Local Government Area of kogi State. For the purpose of this study 15 secondary schools would be chosen using sample random sampling techniques. In all the secondary schools in Ijumu Local Government Area there are 860 teachers’ out of which 294 teachers would be chosen from the 15 secondary schools selected, using stratified random sampling techniques.
3.3 Research instrument
The instrument used for gathering information is questionnaire which would be conducted. by the researcher with due consultation. The instrument used for the research would be self-designed questionnaire with twenty items. It consists of two sections. Section A. deals with the bio-data of the respondents while section B. is sub-divided into four parts there would be different alternative responses to each statement and the respondents would be expected to tick the most appropriate one. E.g. strongly agree (SA) agree (A), disagree (D) strongly disagree (SD).
3.4 Validity of the instrument
Validity refers to the appropriateness courage and usefulness of the instrument employed. The questionnaire would be given to the education researcher and supervisor to check for the content and validity. This is to ascertain if the questionnaire contained adequate sample of the domain of content of area of study.
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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 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 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---
