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The Influence Of Teachers’ Professional Development On Students’ Academic Performances
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Discussion
This 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 of Rosanwo (1998) and Azees (2011) that there are positive and significant relationship between teachers’ profession and students’ academic performance in Ijumu Local Government Areas of Kogi states respectively. This implies that if teachers were supplied in required teaching and students’ academic performance would surely improve.
The finding of this study revealed that there is significant relationship between teacher qualification and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state. The statistical analysis of the hypothesis tested showed that p-value (0.000) is less than the significant level (0.05) for 292 degree of freedom. It means that there is low but positive significant relationship between teacher qualification and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state. This finding confirmed the finding of Zaku (2010) stated that the importance of teachers in the success of any educational programmer cannot be underrated because the task of implementing school curriculum lies on the teachers. Thus students’ academic performance will improve if they are taughtby qualified teachers supplied according to the need of the schools.
It was also discovered from the finding of the study that there is a significant relationship between teacher’s method of teaching and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state. This became known with the p-value (0.002) is less than the significant level (0.05) for 292 degree of freedom. It indicates that there is moderate and positive relationship between teacher’s method of teaching and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state. This is in agreement with Billingsley and Cross, 2009. The implication of this finding is that teacher’s method of teaching is very important in students’ academic performance. This finding also gave credence to the assertion of Zaku (2010)
The finding of this study revealed that there is significant relationship between teacher’s experience and students’ academic performance in Ijumu Secondary Schools, Kogi state.
The statistical analysis of the hypothesis tested showed that p-value (0.000) is less than the significance level (0.05) for 292 degree of freedom. Therefore, a significant relationship exists between teacher’s experience and students’ academic performance in Ijumu secondary schools, Kogi state. These findings confirmed the findings of Boe (1999) who noted that teacher’s experience has negative efforts on the academic performance of students. It is the view of the author that professionalism of teaching will further improve teachers’ stability with positive impact on students’ academic performance.
The result of the hypothesis which stated that there is no significant relationship between teacher’s competency and students’ academic performance in Ijumu Secondary Schools, Kogi state shows that there is low, positive significant relationship between teacher competencyand students’ academic performance. The result is in line with the opinion of James (2011), that in order to increase teachers competency, teachers who are assigned to teach subjects which they did not study at the tertiary level should be peered with teachers who actually studies such subject as their mentor, teachers competency can also improve by giving such teachers opportunity for further studies, exposure to workshops and seminars so as to improve students’ academic performance in secondary schools. 
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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 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---
