• The Influence Of Teachers’ Professional Development On Students’ Academic Performances

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    • 3.5    Reliability of the Instrument
              Reliability means the ability of a test to yield identical result when they are administered. Ibrahim (2002) describe reliability as consistency of scores or responses from one, administration of an instrument to another and from one set of item to another. It means that an instrument is said to be reliable if the consistency measures what it is designed to measure.
          The questionnaire would be administered on a small group of teachers compared using Pearson product-moment correlation statistic at 0.05 was obtained.
        3.6    Procedure of the Data Collection
              The copies of the questionnaire would be taken to the respondents by the researcher and collected on the spot after completed. The strategy provided the opportunity of solving the problem encountered by the teachers in the course of completing the questionnaire
      3.7     Method of Data Analysis
              The descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistics would be used to analyze the data collected. Information would be collected and frequency of response to item would be summed up. Pearson product-moment correlation was used to test the extent of relationship between teachers’ professional and students’ academic performance.

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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---