Teachers Behavioral Attitude and Its Effect on Students Academic Performance

section 1 1. 0 Introduction Learning is a lifetime process. Continues culture equips one as a scholar with a bigger subordination of knowledge, a broader understanding of concomitants, a larger repository of wisdom, and a split up insight on life that ordain sour better man-to-man responsible and upright human bes. On process of learning, students or apprentice is the center of didactics. get a lineing their different aspects of a student and their ways on attaining much(prenominal) goals result be of great impotance. As such, the extent of students learning in pedantics whitethorn be opinionated by the grades a student earns for a period of learning.It is believed that a grade is a uncomplicated indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is reason let out that they whitethorn in addition arrive at learned a lot duration low grades indicate lesser learning. However, much experiences and studies free-base out that on that point atomic mi litary issue 18 also several grammatical constituents that would account for the grades. No single component part prat be unimp to each oneably pointed out as predicting grades. It has been interplay of so m either factors gender, daily allowance, social place, time and inte ministration. In fact, almost all of active environmental and personal factors ar a variable of groomman proceeding. metre of faculty member surgery of students is challenging since student feat is a convergence of socio-economic, psychological and environmental factors. However, base on Bradleys (1978) possibleness that the individual ar motivated to take credit for their successes and to deny responsibility for their failures in baffle to protect or enhance their self-esteem. Hence Bradley ticks that students rating is a position of both their lieu and the interaction between them and their teachers.This whitethorn be in the sense as suggested by Meighan (1978) that the students perceived teaching as more important than learning and teachers activity as more central than pupils. This of ladder contradicts the official rhetoric of learningal writing and debate that experiences the claims for the pupils welf atomic number 18 as the central focus, Meicghan pleads further(Meighan 1978,86). Goos (1982) also found out that many students over the geezerhood develop a negative attitude not only to develop and subject materials, but also to teachers in general.Such students often invite it difficult to re young to teachers and more often they attribute many of their difficulties to execrable teaching and rotten Instructors (Goos 1982,121). Base on the above assertions, this study tthusly aims at finding the factors, which are responsible for students inelastic behavior towards study along with identifying those factors, which alleviate a student to make progress in his studies with specific strain on teachers behavioral attitudes as it proceeds students faculty member action. . 1 statement of problem On attaining Independence status as a nation in 1960 what seemed a major(ip) connect to most Nigerian leaders then was how education would be genial to all citizens of the newly created nation. Education was seen as the necessary operator straight off and essentially for the consolidation of the independence, for securing the new nation against neocolonialism and for making workable the newly established self government in a multi-ethnic society. mess hall education, at least to the level of literacy, was also seen by the Nigerian leaders to be necessary to create a proper foundation for a democratic government (Best, 1984) The desire to use education for nation grammatical construction was (and is settle down) very compelling and so much was the faith in education that the schools of the nation were not only meant for political socialization but also for other social functions like education and for economic growth.Despite the prai seworthy motives which seemed to justify the very high cost of the expanded education programmed of the late Nigeria, most Command schools in Nigeria are not really impelling engines for the diverse functions for which they are set up. The get alongance of the schools as attested to by the academician public arrayations of the students especially at the lowly school level stupefy been rather very disappointing. The occurrence actually tends towards threatening the future of the schools. by from overtop schools, the reports of the many studies and surveys (for example, the 1980-1984 Statistics of Education by the Federal Ministry of Education, Lagos report create in the Times Publication (Nigeria) of September 15, 2006 and the one in the Nigerian Guardian of February 2, 2009) and the many recent editorials in many Nigerian dairy farm newspapers all point to the academic performances of Nigerian secondary school students which take up been on the decline for approximately times now. This declining trend has become a concern for the seeker.As a takings of fact many soldiers live in the Barracks would rather prefer to enroll their children in to civilian schools than to conduct them to command schools at a relatively cheaper rate. The failure of command schools is olibanum indicating that the health and the well-being of the future of these schools may be in jeopardy. It and so becomes a concern to the police detective as to the reason why students performance film been in continuous decline despite the improvements and advances learning facilities that are now available in our age.Although the researcher may not be able to cover a larger portion of the subject matter he however hopes that this study exit expose him to a larger ambit for future research. 1. 2purpose of study During the past several years a number of valuable studies cast been added to existing body of knowledge underdeveloped various models to assess the student performanc e however most of the studies relied on the advanced developed societies as their setting. This study therefore aims at 1. find out the factors that light upon the academic performance of secondary school student specifically in our context and particularly in Command secondary schools. 2. find out the make of teachers behavioral attitude on academic performance of students. 3. agree to prefer possible ways in which students academic performance tooshie be improved through a healthy teacher-student relationship. 4. And finally to limit the relationship between the different factors that are considered responsible or bear upon the students performance and also providing bases for further researches regarding student performance. . 3scope of study This study focuses on investigating teachers behavioral attitude and its effects on students academic performance. The scope of this work entrust be limited to triple command secondary schools in Lagos. A survey ordain be conducted to collect nurture and responses of students, and teachers regarding factors affecting their performance. However it should be understood that the researchers would not by any means try to cover all the ariables that jackpot influenced students academic performance hence the focus is on investigating teachers behavioral attitudes and how it can affect the education and performance of students according to needs and requirements. Literatures testament also be re visualizeed on different factors that are expected to influence the student performance. 1. 4Significance The major contribution of this study lies in the demonstration of a large continue of the role of teachers on students performance.The researcher also believes that by focusing on different factors that influence students performance, this will help teachers to improve on students academic performance by creating a healthy students-teachers relationship This study will also act as an antidote for the researcher who h opes to be a lecturer in command schools in future hence it will guide him on how to develop his character so as to make relevant impact on the students whom he will be well timed(predicate) to teach.It will also serve as an addition to existing literatures in the library 1. 5Limitation of Studies As it is often said, there is no perfect research so it may likely be with this research work. It is important to note that there are several factors that can affect a students academic performance. To embark on such a scope of work is still beyond the researchers capacity at this level hence only a single factor among the numerous factors that affects students academic performance will be researched into.Base on this the researcher will have to recommend other areas for other people to research into or may have to further research into them in the future. It is also possible that some of the factors that have received satisfying attention in existing literatures will prove to be only w oebegonely related to student performance in this study. theatrical role 2 2. 0 Literature Review 2. 1 Introduction Education is the most essential factor and the pride of either nation. As such the future of any country is greatly determined by the quality of its educational sector.But it is rather unfortunate that the educational system of Nigeria today seem to have been just a exaggeration of what it ought to be. This has been blamed on a number of factors such as brusque wayal strategies by the teachers. That is, the students probably perceived teachers instructional strategies or mainly the teacher-pupil relationship or inter action through the medium of instruction more importantly for their academic success than any other school-related factor presented to them.The delirious climate for learning provided by the teacher whether in the attitude or considered by the student will be more exceedingly valued than any other factor in the school which may have effect on the a cademic achievement. Hence the researcher will in this chapter reexamination literatures on factors that affect students performance. 2. 2 schoolchilds-Teachers Relationship and effects on Academic Performance All of the research reviews support the hypothesis that student performance depends on different socio-economic, psychological, environmental factors.The findings of research studies concentrate that student performance is affected by different factors such as learning abilities because new paradigm about learning assumes that all students can and should learn at higher levels but it should not be considered as constraint because there are other factors like race, gender, sex that can affect students performance. (Hansen, Joe 2000). Some of the authors even tried to apologize the link between students achievements, economic circumstances and the risk of becoming a drop-out that proved to be positive (Goldman, N. Haney, W. , and Koffler, McDill, E. , 1989, Levin, H. , 1986) B. A Chansarkar and A. Mishaeloudis (2001), explained the effects of age, qualification infinite from learning place etc. on student performance. On the contrary, Yvonne argue that the performance of students on the module is not affected by such factors as age, sex and place of residence but is associated with qualification in quantitative subjects. It is also found that those who live near the school perform better than other students.Yvonne Beaumont Walters, kola soyibo,(1998) further elaborated that student performance is very much dependent on socio economic back grime as per their statement, High school students level of performance is with statistically significant differences, linked to their gender, grade level, school location, school type, student type and socio-economic background. Kirby, Winston et al. (2002) rivet on students impatience (his time-discount behavior) that influences his own academic performance. Goethe found out that weak students do better when cla ssifyed with other weak students. As implied by Zajoncs analysis of older siblings (1976,27) it shows that students performance improves if they are with the students of their own kind. There are often different results by gender, (Hoxby2000, 96). Sacerdote (2001) finds that grades are higher when students have unusually academically untroubled room-mates. The results of Zimmerman (1999, 2001) were somewhat contrasted to Goethe idea but again it proved that students performance depends on number of different factors, it says that weak peers might reduce the grades of middling or strong students. (Alexander, Gur et al. 974 Fraser, Beamn et al. 1977) explained that some of the practices adopted by college administration in higher education like residential colleges or organized study groups also help to increases performance. Keeping in view all of the variables discussed by authors one discovers that they are just uncountable factors and projections that have been made regarding st udents academic performance. Again Macleans (1966) claim is consisted with this view in the statement that poor teaching systems and too much emphasis on unrealistic curricular objectives and contents may cause emotional block to learning. . 3 School Characteristics that Affects Students Academic Performance School-related characteristics which seem to have been ranked more highly than any other, is inadequate resource materials for teaching. Although this group of characteristics was ranked as number one by the many authors this except is an indication that the respondents of this study perceived this group of characteristics as the one that affect pupil academic performance the most. Inadequate resource materials for teaching are indeed a major problem in Nigeria.A Nigerian Times Publication of September 15, 1990 reported findings of a research licensed by the World Bank and the British Overseas Development judicatory stating that many institutions in Nigeria do not make avail able to school pupils textbooks, appropriate reading materials, library and laboratory facilities. The perception of a situation of this nature as having the most effect on pupil academic performance or as responsible for the high rate of academic failures among students is supported by Macleans (1966, 32) who claim that difficulties expressed by failing students may be due to lack of material information for learning.A supposedly learning environment devoid of necessary learning materials will definitely result into learning difficulty and hence failure by the learner. Section 3 3. 0 Methodology 3. 1Introduction In this chapter the researcher will present the order that will be used in the course of this work. Amongst which is the population, sampling, procedure, validity, rules of info analysis and the administration of instruments. The researcher will use the descriptive method to gather data on how the behavioral attitude of teachers can affects the academic performance of st udents.To achieve his goal, the researcher will employ both the primary and secondary methods of data collection. For the primary method, questionnaires will be developed and distributed amongst teachers and students of ternary selected school in the army command secondary schools. Meanwhile, the secondary method of data collection will be based on review of literature in the libraries. Views of various authors will be examined and analyzed so as to understand their opinions on the subject matter. 3. 2 explore Instruments In order to sample the opinions of the targeted audience, the researcher will employ the primary method of data collection.Interview questions will be framed and questionnaires designed by the researcher and modified by the supervisor to sort the desired goal. A lend of 120 questionnaires will be designed to sample the opinions of respondents. The questionnaires will be distributed in equal proportion to both teachers and students of the triple selected command secondary schools in Lagos. Meanwhile the oral interview will be conducted only among the principles of these schools. 3. 3 Research Designs The questionnaires will be divided into three major parts. The first part will aim at put in personal data of the respondents.The second part will contain major questions demanding for the respondents opinions on the subject matter. The questionnaire will comprise both structured and formless questions. The unstructured (open-ended) questions will enable the respondents to freely express their own opinions without being guided by anyone. 3. 4Administration of the Instrument Being a soldier who has lived and served in some of these schools, the researcher has obtained permission from the authorities that are to carry out this research work in command secondary schools.The principles of these schools and some teachers have also promise to give their maximum support to enable the researcher achieve his goal hence the researcher will personally with the tending of the principles administer the questionnaires to the respondents. 3. 5 Validity and Reliability of the Instrument. To ensure the authenticity and credibleness of the instruments, the researcher with the assistance of the supervisor will carefully and designed the instrument so as to enable the respondents to express their minds without biases. 3. 6 Population of Study The population of study in this work will constitute of three selected ommand secondary schools in Lagos among who are students, teachers, and the principles. It this these group of person whose opinions will be sample in this work. 3. 7 Population Sampling The researcher will target one hundred and twenty (120) persons from the three selected schools. Out of the total population, the researcher will sample the opinions of ten(10) teachers including the principal of each of the schools. 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